If he's as mighty, malicious, and intent on our destruction as our Faith teaches, then nothing is more foolhardy than for us to think he doesn't exist.

Still, is there really strong evidence that he exists?

Consider your own temptations: they're annoying and embarrassing, but largely unremarkable and even boring.

But diabolical?

On the contrary, you and I do generally try to be decent folks, as do most the folks we know.

When we consider the many good folks around us, it's easy to dismiss the devil as the product of a fevered medieval imagination.

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But then what about the Holocaust? Or the machete massacre of thousands in Rwanda? The murder of 3,000 innocents on 9/11? Fifty million babies slaughtered in our country by abortionists who know exactly what they are doing?

Do horrors on that scale come forth from the hearts of decent folks striving to be good?

Or is there Something More?

A malicious Something More presiding with glee over evils vast in scope and horrible in their consequences.

Faced with such evils, why do we find it hard to believe in the devil?

Fr. Gerald Vann thinks it's because we've got a wildly improbable caricature of the devil stuck in our minds, with horns and tail and smile that even small children can't take seriously.

Regardless of how it came about, it's Satan's great triumph: sometimes even good Catholics doubt his existence.

Yet he's real.

And bent on your damnation.

Are you prepared to resist his efforts to gain power over your soul?

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Good generals spend long hours studying their enemies, to learn their habitual ways of attack, their strengths, their weaknesses, and how others have stymied or even defeated them.

Like a good general, Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P., spent long years studying the devil, with particular attention to that time in the New Testament when the devil tarried so long that his methods were revealed, his strengths, and his weaknesses.

The Devil and How to Resist Him is the fruit of that long study. It's the handbook you need today if you are going to fend off the Devil's attack tomorrow.

Until you have it, you're vulnerable . . . especially to the dangerously subtle methods he uses against people like you, who rarely really doubt his existence, and are generally on guard. From Fr. Vann, you'll learn:

• How His responses to Satan show you how to respond to the temptations Satan places before you

• Why absence of temptation can be more dangerous to your soul than temptation itself

• How to tell which temptations you must resist — and which to simply flee

• Plus: Much more to help you defeat the Devil

"The Devil and How to Resist Him is a very timely reminder for those who still don't take the Devil seriously."
Rev. Benedict Groeschel

"An outstanding book that deals with the presence of evil and evil spirits and the superior force of the Holy Spirit in the spiritual warfare of our time."
Rev. Michael Scanlan

The Devil and How to Resist Him
by Gerald Vann
174 pgs ppbk $13.95

Consider as well the book that St. Francis de Sales carried with him for 18 years!

Its wisdom formed his soul; it inspired him to a life of the deepest devotion, and ultimately it helped him become one of the Church's greatest saints. Now this book can do the same thing for you.

It's no longer fashionable to speak of the Christian life as a "battle," but there's actually no better way to describe the tug-of-war for your soul that's raging right now between the forces of light and darkness.

In Spiritual Combat, Dom Lorenzo Scupoli helps you take your proper part in this spiritual battle so that you can win — decisively — the war for your soul.

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Best of all, Spiritual Combat doesn't just tell you what you ought to be doing in order to live a truly Christian life — it also shows you how to do it.

These directions include:

• Seven reflections to help you be sorry for sinning

• Twelve ways to think about death — they'll help you live better today!

• Prayer: seven ways to achieve its full benefits

• What to do when prayer is dry and burdensome . . . or simply impossible.

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"This great spiritual classic has influenced Catholic and Eastern Orthodox spirituality for four hundred years. Its republication is part of the new surge of interest in reforming Catholic life and practice."
Fr. Benedict Groeschel

Spiritual Combat
by Lorenzo Scupoli
240 pgs ppbk $15.95