The next meeting of the Great Books Discussion Group will be on Thursday, May 9th, at 7:00 p.m. in Malta Hall. Contact Patrick Carey at 770-241-2511 for additional information.
Robert Hugh Benson’s (1871-1914) Lord of the World has been called prophetic by both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. Benson, descended from a long line of Anglican clergymen, began writing this work two years after his 1903 conversion to the Catholic faith. In this novel of the Antichrist, set in a fictional universe, Monsignor Benson accurately predicts interstate highways, weapons of mass destruction, the use of aircraft to drop bombs on both military and civilian targets, and passenger air travel in advanced Zeppelins.
