Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld Telemachus

Telemachus

Focusing on literature as well as on politics

and a convert to Catholicism

the Catholic Church and modernity seem to be two entities inextricably at odds with one another

Pater Sancte

Saint Jerome: The Early Years Charles de Foucauld TelemachusBy Paul Monceaux Saint Jerome was a born writer, individual, fresh, sparkling with verve and (at times) vitriol; a great scholar, accomplished in languages, exegesis, and history; and, above all, an ingenious translator, whose Vulgate is the Churchs official Latin Bible. Despite the longstanding fame of his literary and spiritual legacies, however, the saints historical life has not always received equal care. In this equally instructive and