Conscience Pervades Robert Conrad’s “John Fisher and Thomas More, Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads.”
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In this episode 277, we visit with Robert Conrad, author of “John Fisher and Thomas More, Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads.”
This book examines the lives (and deaths) of Bishop John Fisher and Lord Chancellor Thomas More who “died the King’s good servant, but God’s first.” Sixteenth century figures who spoke truth to power when, resolutely and cheerfully they resisted King Henry VIII’s demand to swear to an oath against their conscience.
The book consists of a series of stories told with a trial lawyer’s passion for advocacy and an Irishman’s love for a well-told story.
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft had this to say about the book: “Ambivalence and ambiguity do not inhabit these pages. Validated historic lives project principles desperately needed by our modern culture of convenience and ‘compromised integrity.’ Don’t read this unless you are prepared, first to be intimidated by the lives of focused virtue; and then inspired with God’s help to imitate them.”
Connect With the Author
About the Author:
Robert Conrad is a federal trial judge, former federal prosecutor, ACC basketball player, youth coach and amateur historian.
He and his wife Ann have five children and ten grandchildren.
He finds fulfillment in coaching and mentoring others in pursuit of excellence in one’s vocation and relationships.
More Praise for the book:
“Robert Conrad has brought together in one book the witness of these two unlikely friends, the ascetic John Fisher and the mirthful Thomas More. Their complementary witness shows how cleric and layman alike are to respond to persecutions. Given the Church’s current challenges, this is more than just a reflection on the virtues of past figures. By applying the example of these saints to our own day, Conrad traces the way for Catholics to respond to the persecutions soon upon us.”
-Reverend Paul Scalia, Episcopal Vicar for Clergy for the Diocese of Arlington, and author of Sermons in Times of Crisis
“Robert Conrad’s John Fisher and Thomas More is the most inspiring book I’ve read in years. By connecting these courageous martyrs to eternal verities like Providence and vocation, the author renders these men instantly relevant to our time, and does so with literary panache. The book is both storytelling at its finest, and a treasure trove of thoughts on which to meditate. It will make an outstanding gift to any Catholic – or to any student of human nature.”
–Mary Eberstadt, Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center
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