Saint Teresa of Lisieux and the Perfection of Simplicity

Aurelio Porfiri

In the past few decades, I’ve often heard about a “return to simplicity” in the Church, a rejection of the grandiose elements of the Counter-Reformation to more closely resemble the early Christians.

Now, anyone who knows even a little about the early Church and wants to be honest knows very well that it was by no means a time of peace and harmony but ra…