Caryll Houselander was a mystic, religious writer, artist, and notorious eccentric with both a great capacity for work and a willingness to expend herself in serving others who wanted her counsel. Among her most popular books were her autobiography A Rocking-Horse Catholic and The Reed of God, her meditation on Mary. She died in 1954, at the age of 53. She's also a writer readers tend either to love or the find incomprehensible.
The article from which this is selected is titled "Christ, the Cross, the Crisis." It was the fourth in a series on "The Church and the World Crisis." Other writers included Christopher Dawson and Sheila Kaye-Smith. The full article can be read here. It appeared in the issue of 31 October 1947.
