Intermountain Catholic | 1902-11-29 | Page 2 | Returning to the Fold

Beturning to the Fold. France, though in a very bad way from the Catholic point of view, both by reason of attacks from without and apathy from within, has one strong reason for Catholic hopefulness in the revival of religion among the leading writers. Ferdinand Brunetiere, who lectured in America two years ago, has since become a convert, and his example has been followed by Francois Coppee, Paul Bourget and Joris Kahl Huysmans. Other active authors now closely identified iden-tified with the church are Paul Her-vieu, Her-vieu, Marcel Prevost, Henri de Regnier and J. de Narfon, while Leo Taxil, once put in prison for writings which shocked the moral sense of the French courts, has been received in to the Society So-ciety of Jesus.