![]() ![]() ![]() Undset would later recall that her conversion blessed her with the kind of "peace that governs the great depth of the sea. She converted at a time when native Norwegian priests could be counted on one hand. ![]() ![]() In Sigrid Undset's Quest for Truth, Father Jaki reveals how bold and hard-hitting Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) was in defense of the Church: "She held that only the living voice of the Catholic Church, speaking on behalf of Christ, can provide the norms of selflessness that among other things would safeguard monogamous marriage." She also defended the dignity of each human life, as when she called on her readers "to believe that every child has a soul which is worth more than the entire visible world." In these times Undset needs to be widely read.ĭrawing from a plethora of sources, Father Jaki maps out the quest that led her into the Catholic Church on All Saints' Day 1924, just four years before she received the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]()
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