World War II highlighted humanity's collective inability to restore order from the ruins of the "war to end all wars," instead opting to rebuild a godless society on the shaky pillars of atheistic materialism, shameless liberalism, and vile communism. Archbishop Sheen confronts the irrational, irreligious, and violent spirit of the age in these nineteen addresses, broadcast from December 15, 1940, to April 13, 1941, and exhorts the Western world to return to God with all its heart, "by prayer, penance, reparation, by rekindling in our consciences the justice of God, and emblazoning before our eyes the Christ of Judgment."
War and Guilt, delivered with prophetic enthusiasm and brutal honesty, demonstrates how to face the truth of fallen nature and confront mankind's weight of sin with fortitude and humility, demonstrating that the Gospel cuts deeper than any sword, “reaching the very division between soul and spirit.”