A School for Beginners

As I write this, there have been and continue to be riots across the country. It’s mob violence using a man’s death at the hands of a morally corrupt cop as an excuse. There’s a sharp division between those who want real law and order and those who simply want to rape and pillage, whether it’s to satisfy their own pleasure or to overthrow the government and establish a communist state.   The reason I mention the above to start a book review is to highlight an immediate example to which Terror of Demons is an answer to – the contagion of effeminacy (reluctance to suffer due to a disordered attachment to pleasure). There are very few virtuous men, not only in secular society but among the hierarchy of Holy Mother Church.   I freely admit that effeminacy has been a struggle for most of my life. I grew up in comfort with a father physically and financially present but morally absent. I had very few examples of authentically Catholic men in my life to turn to for guidance. Even books were