Beguiled into truth …

… A Flight into Reality - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It was not, then, a fully Christian world that either Undset or Tolkien looked back upon, but a world that was going to become Christian, or that was still in the way of becoming so, and this backward look was more than escapist and sentimental.  For the problem facing the West, as they saw it, was what to do with a world that had lost its faith, and was trading upon and depleting the heritage of that faith.