About F.J. Sheed

F.J. Sheed (1897-1981) was a writer, publisher, and speaker, widely recognized as one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century. With his wife, Maisie Ward, he founded the publishing house of Sheed & Ward, which revived the Catholic literary movement and promoted innumerable intellectual, literary, and artistic treasures of the Catholic Church.

The Supreme Sacrifice

By |2026-04-15T13:40:52-05:00April 10th, 2026|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christianity, Cluny, Easter|

The sacrifice of Christ was totally effective. It could not be otherwise, given that He Who offered it was God. But it is important to grasp what it effected. Whatever it was meant to effect, it did effect. But what was it? At the moment of His death on Calvary, Christ Our Lord said, “It [...]

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God and Death

By |2026-04-10T10:46:07-05:00March 22nd, 2025|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Cluny, Communism|

If suffering seems to mock at life, death’s mockery of life is more blatant still. It is very curious that any man constructing either a way of life for himself or a larger system of life for society should ignore death altogether. Death, after all, is a fact. It was not invented by the Catholic [...]

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