"Does any Faith Suffice?" by Leonardus Lessius, S.J., NOW AVAILABLE.

A SHINING LIGHT of the Society of Jesus returns to print. Recusant Press's latest publication, Does any Faith Suffice?, written by Leonardus Lessius, Servant of God, Doctor of Philosophy and Sacred Theology, and esteemed member of the Society of Jesus, is now available via Amazon in paperback and digital formats. This affordable new edition, carefully typeset and decorated with period-accurate drop-capitals and print decorations by Mr. Daniel Crooks, translated by the Rev. Dr. William Wright (also of the Society of Jesus), and edited by Boone Larson (editor of our previous publication, The Folly of Heresy), contains an editor's introduction, explanatory footnotes, textual-critical endnotes, and three indices, including a very useful topical index. The original edition's theological approbation has also been included.

     We at Recusant Press hope that the volume will be a useful tool for study and even teaching in this, our confused and unfortunate age.

Boone Larson.

Feast of St. Sylvester I, Pope, 31 December 2025.

Soon-to-be-Released Title from Recusant Press.

A SHORT WORK by the notable Jesuit scholar and Servant of God Leonardus Lessius is in the works and will be released by Recusant Press soon. Father Lessius's subject, the indefensibility of religious indifferentism (and, by consequence, its total inappropriateness for Roman Catholics), is dealt with in about thirty-five pages, with the volume totaling around sixty pages.

    The volume—which will be titled Does Any Faith Suffice?—will also include a frontispiece, bearing an engraved portrait of the author.

    We hope the essay will revive an awareness of the dangers of indifferentism and a renewed appreciation for Pope Blessed Pius IX's condemnation thereof:

CONDEMNED: "Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true."

CONDEMNED: "Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation."

CONDEMNED: "Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ."

CONDEMNED: "Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church."

(Syllabus errorum, 8 December 1864, § 3, nos. 15–18.)

Boone Larson.

Ember Wednesday in Advent, 3 December 2025.