An Audience for All Seasons: The Life of Sister Bernadette of the Cross, by Emily Linz

By Emily Linz, Crisis Magazine, July 15, 2022

Emily Linz graduated from the University of Dallas with a degree in English and a Latin concentration. …

In the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, about the life of St. Thomas More, More arrives at his home after a late-night meeting with Cardinal Wolsey about King Henry VIII’s divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon. Upon his arrival, an eager young man, Richard Rich, asks Thomas More if he has a post in court for him. More says that he has found a post for him as a teacher. Upon hearing this news, Rich is crestfallen. More consoles him by saying that he might be a “good,” even a “great,” teacher. Rich responds, “If I was, who would know it?” More quickly responds: “You. Your pupils. Your friends. God. Not a bad public, that.”…

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