The Blessed Woman

Imprisoned for his opposition to Hitler, Father Alfred Delp wrote “The Shaking Reality of Advent,” from which the following is an excerpt, in a Nazi prison shortly before he was executed in 1945. She is the most comforting of all the Advent figures....

The One Who Cries in the Wilderness

Imprisoned for his opposition to Hitler, Father Alfred Delp wrote “The Shaking Reality of Advent,” from which the following is an excerpt, in a Nazi prison shortly before he was executed in 1945. Woe to an age when the voices of those who cry in the...