Christ is King: New book sets out full doctrine using works of Cardinal Pie French Cardinal Pie, inspiration to the saintly Pope Pius X, says in his Christmas Homily in 1871 the following words: Is not ours an age of mislived lives, of unmanned men? Why?...Because Jesus Christ has disappeared. Wherever the people are true Christians, there are men to be found in large numbers, but everywhere and always, if Christianity wilts, the men wilt. Look closely, they are no longer men but shadows of men. Thus what do you hear on all sides today. The world is dwindling away, for lack of men; the nations are perishing for scarcity of men, for the rareness of men...I do believe: there are no men where there is no character; there is no character where there are no principles, doctrines, stands taken; there are no stands taken, no doctrines, no principles, where there is no religious faith and consequently no religion of society. Do what you will: only from God you will get men. - ...
ACT 1, SCENE 1 QUEEN ISABELLA, downstage, addresses the theatre audience. She wears a floor lenght costume, circa 1492. The stage is empty except for a table, chairs and a scrim upstage. ISABELLA: Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen. I understand we have a number of students in the audience. I would like to begin with a question? Who was the person or persons who liberated Spain from the Moors? AUDIENCE: (Shouts from the audience) "Ferdinand and Isabella. "? ISABELLA: Not true. Ferdinand and Isabella. They took part in the re-conquest and freed Granada. There was a Prince in Castile who paved the way for the re- conquest. He would become known as Fernando the Third. He liberated the rest of Spain more than two hundred years prior to Granada. (HUBBUB in the audience. ISABELLA: Who was this young Prince? Born in 1199 the son of King Alfonso the 9th of of Leon and Dona Berenguera of Castile. Lady Berenguera...
