LIFE AND ANECDOTES OF SAINT PHILIP NERI

The great North American bishop, Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, used to say that “atheists take this world very seriously because it is the only world they are ever going to have”—and he was right. That explains the modern man’s constant anxiety, disguised as stress or neurosis—symptoms of an immanentist view of man and his nature, in other words, a materialistic vision that is insufficient, incapable of providing happiness and justice. So far, this immanentism appears to be winning.
This book is written as a series of snapshots that illustrate how a Catholic ought to govern his life—and therefore, his joy.