"Many well-grounded complaints have been made about religious literature on the score that it tends to minimize the importance and dignity of life here and now in favor of life in the next world or miraculous manifestations of grace...The Catholic writer, insofar as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for" -- Flannery O'Connor. "My dear Loukas, if what you have written happened as described...it will overturn the world" --Theophilos, from the Michael O'Brien...