Secular humanism has triumphed. Everything the late Victorians and Edwardians thought would bring individual happiness continues to be achieved: technology has made it so no one needs to work for a living, the interpersonal sciences ensure a smooth-running social order, and in the name of tolerance, spiritual beliefs have been uprooted and removed except for an individual holdout: a mainly discredited and rapidly shrinking Catholic Cathedral. Yet people are unsatisfied.What continues to be created is a sterile globe of crass on the subject of Lord from the World: A Novel materialism, a global without spiritual dimensions, a global where people daily choose legalized euthanasia on the emptiness of presence. Out of the lifestyle of despair, generally there comes up a charismatic innovator: Julian Felsenburgh. Soon the people are in Felsenburgh’s thrall and he turns into leader from the world. But in their eagerness for change, have the people of the globe embraced the Antichrist and hastened the finish of days?Dad Percy Franklin remains a bastion of balance, even as the Catholic Church disintegrates around him. Finally outlawed and driven underground, it is only this little and shrinking Cathedral that stands against the “Lord from the World.”