Spiritual Insights Into A Holy War (1942-1943)

http://www.catholicworldreport.com ^ | May 9, 2014 | Matthew A. Rarey

[NKP_Vet]

Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 (St. Augustine’s Press, 2013) is an unconventional approach to the Second World War by an exceptionally gifted and fascinating man, Rev. George William Rutler, for whom writing is one of several avocations—or, as he prefers to describe them, intensities: “I prefer ‘intensities’ because doing something for diversion, increases concentration and actually makes one more productive, as with all-important prayer.” Other intensities include painting (still lifes and landscapes, mainly, and worth an internet search), music (playing piano and harpsichord and composing arrangements), and boxing: all of them reinforcing, in roundabout or direct fashion, his vocation as a Catholic priest.

Consider his penchant for regulated pummeling. “It’s very cerebral, really intellectual,” he once told the alumni magazine of Dartmouth, where he got the heavy glossing of a classical education, brought to a brilliant sheen through subsequent study at Oxford and Rome and boundless curiosity. A polyglot and multi-linguist, “dead” languages are quick to his lips; and if his visage were chiseled in marble, the resulting bust could, appropriately enough, pass for an ancient Roman’s

[NKP_Vet]

Fr. George Rutler's book, Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 is an unconventional and gripping excursion through the pivotal two years of World War II.

[Salvation]

Rutler is a great writer. This sounds so interesting.