The End of the Secularist Age By Michael Novak An Interview with Michael Novak by Robert Royal RR: The name of your new book is No One Sees God. What do you mean by that title? MN: When I was in high school and, after, in the novitiate, studying for the Holy Cross Fathers, I read a lot of St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Teresa of Avila, and St. John of the Cross, all of whom wrote movingly of the “dark night” of silence and isolation in prayer often experienced by the seasoned believer. Gone are the sweet consolations of...