The Thin Mountain Air stationery Bringing his papal hostage to

Bringing his papal hostage to the ancestral Coûfontaine home

which dramatized so powerfully

Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) was a French novelist and essayist

Ranging from papal infallibility to the sacraments and beyond

The Thin Mountain Air stationery Bringing his papal hostage toBy Paul Horgan New York State in the 1920s: a time of brisk and bright hope, with prosperity and progress rising as a vision beyond the fact of mortality to which all men are subject. For Richard, now in his sophomore year of college, life is a fruit ripe for the picking. But when his father, the newly elected Lieutenant Governor of New York, is taken ill with tuberculosis, Richard leaves college to join his family in New Mexico. There his own health