By Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D., Crisis Magazine - Writing in Crisis, Joseph Pearce praises “the novel’s perennial relevance” as a “cautionary vision of the future” that “the present in which we find ourselves” is becoming. He cites then-Cardinal Ratzinger in 1992, who quotes Pope Benedict XV: The coming of a world state is longed for, by all the worst and most distorted elements…. In it no acknowledgement would be made of the authority of a father over his children, or of God over human society. If these ideas are put into practice, there will inevitably follow a reign of unheard-of terror.