pstrongPerhaps the dystopian novel par excellence, strongRobert Hugh Benson's emLord of the Worldem projects a terrifying future of a culture of death, a new world order of exclusive secular humanism in which man truly is the solitary measure of all things. As the dawn of the twenty-first century looms, so too does the threat of a new world war. Julian Felsenburgh, a young, mysterious American politician, is crossing the globe on a diplomatic mission. Inverting the words of Christ, he promises to the world emFollow me and you will know-not a sword-but peaceem. Yet this peace must come at the price of Christianity's demise, so the nations in concert move to purge the Church's deadly poison from the corpus of human society.pemPater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi! emCeremony of Papal CoronationpAs the consummation of history increases the mass defections from and rampant apostasy in the Church, the last bastion of religion, those who remain must endure persecution, torture, and death. T