A Rocking-Horse Catholic Saint Joseph Our Father’s House is a

Our Father’s House is a richly variegated assembly of twentieth-century fiction that is both Catholic in character and catholic in appeal

but for beginners

is a watchdog and not a bloodhound

The second of two novels Caroline Gordon wrote after her conversion to the Catholic faith

the Great Banquet

A Rocking-Horse Catholic Saint Joseph Our Father’s House is aBy Caryll Houselander Caryll Houselander was nothing if not unconventional. In the estimation of Maisie Ward, her biographer and friend, it was this trait in particular, the lack of plaster in her sainthood, which so appealed to those who knew her or read her books. Published shortly after Houselanders death at the age of fifty three, A Rocking Horse Catholic is a charming, at times disarming, exercise in autobio graphy. With humility and humor,