{"title":"Bestselling","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"inferno","title":"INFERNO: A Journey Through Modern Hell in Search of Eternal Truth","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"B0FBWYVVDH\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003eCome friend, and let us now retrace the footsteps of the laurel wreathed Florentine that good Virgil guided once before, and enter into that Hell writ large on the canvas of modernity: that Hell broadcast, wi-fi’d, and fibre-to-the-premises’d into the homes and pockets of us all, thence to be refracted through scrying mirrors sigil’d with the forbidden apple. It is from those obsidian screens that very Hades doth then stream relentlessly into many lost souls, burning not with fire but with narrative, borne on by the wings of the Prince of the Air. So let us now ascend and descend; whirl, and swirl; oscillate and vacillate; through truths and untruths; dialectics and kayfabes; influencers and assets: And hope, that like the Tuscan and the Roman long ago, we too shall escape those wretched Infernal cloisters. And there, on the other side of Paradise, at last find our salvation and rest eternal, in dearest Truth.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLAUDS AND APPROBATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eOne of the most commonly-heard descriptions of the contemporary political-cultural panorama is the word \"mad\" or some variation thereupon. This widespread perception that \"the world is going mad\" logically follows the disintegration and desocialisation that is being universally experienced across the formerly-Christian West. In this burlesque but nonetheless profound Dantean odyssey, Augustine Virgil shows how the layers of the modern media hellscape, far from restraining social chaos by seeking to preserve what little order is left, actually constitute some of the principle instigators of the irrational, the diabolical and the horrendous. Miguel Ayuso has called modern media \"reality-fiction\"; a hybrid beast all the more dangerous since it mingles truth with lies to entice the masses, concocting strong delusions which Christians are not to give heed to. In this unique book, the author's love of the Christian and Classical tradition anchors his satirical but scorching critique of the legacy and alternative media ecospheres and begins to point the way home. \u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e Theo Howard, \u003cem\u003eTwo Cities Podcast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Augustine Virgil","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50258070536477,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0951\/9176\/1181\/files\/frontcoveronlineLCMB1.png?v=1763253900"},{"product_id":"the-social-kingship-of-christ-according-to-cardinal-pie","title":"The Social Kingship of Christ According to Cardinal Pie","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"1315\" data-start=\"326\"\u003eThis work gathers and arranges the many scattered writings, sermons, letters, and pastoral works of Cardinal Pie, whose episcopal mission in nineteenth-century France made him one of the most ardent champions of the doctrine that Our Lord Jesus Christ reigns over \u003cem\u003eboth\u003c\/em\u003e individual souls \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eover human society in all its collective and institutional dimensions. In these sources, the good Cardinal repeatedly affirms that the supernatural order, established by God in creation and consummated in the Incarnation and Redemption, remains obligatory and indispensable; the establishment of Christian piety and divine law in private life must find its complement in the public, civic order so that society might reflect the order of grace. Through the methodical work of Fr. Saint-Just, the book renders accessible this comprehensive vision: Christ’s kingship is universal, lawful, and foundational for all legitimate human community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003eVery apt for our time, in its systematic chapters the book shows that to deny the social reign of Christ — that is, to limit Christianity to private devotion or mere “personal morality” — is to accept the desacralization of society. Society is thusly reduced to a bifurcation in which the temporal order is autonomous, dechristened, and exposed to the revolutions of impiety, materialism, and social discord. Cardinal Pie, as Fr. Saint-Just presents him, insists that when the State or civil institutions abandon the recognition of Christ’s sovereign kingship, they relinquish their legitimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLAUDS AND APPROBATIONS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003e“A beautiful book.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eBr. M.-B. 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He preached from the mountaintop, and \u003cstrong\u003ehis words still echo today.\u003c\/strong\u003e”\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Études franciscaines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003eAn “\u003cstrong\u003eexcellent work, so full of doctrine and piety\u003c\/strong\u003e… The relevance of the subject-matter and the \u003cstrong\u003esound, clearly-expounded doctrine\u003c\/strong\u003e ensure this book’s apostolic success, which will be the best reward for the author.”\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Polybiblion \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2219\" data-start=\"1317\"\u003e\"Cardinal Pie was, in the last century, \u003cstrong\u003ethe Doctor par excellence of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ\u003c\/strong\u003e. Although his teachings did not always receive the recognition they deserved, they have lost none of their verity or relevance. The Rev. Fr. 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