title: Second Friends: C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation
author: Milton Walsh
description: Milton Walsh holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. For many years he taught theology at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, and from 1989 to 1997 was pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco. He is the author of Second Friends: C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation and Ronald Knox as Apologist: Wit, Laughter, and the Popish Creed.
zlib_text: SECOND FRIENDS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  FATHER MILTON T. WALSH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Second Friends
  
  
  C.S. Lewis and Ronald Knox in Conversation
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover photograph of C.S. Lewis  
  Used by permission of The Marion E. Wade Center,  
  Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois
  
  
  Cover photograph of Ronald A. Knox  
  Used by permission of  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  
  
  Background photograph of Oxford iStockphoto
  
  
  Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 2008 Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-58617-240-4  
  Library of Congress Control Number 2007938142  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my brother priests,  
  first friends and second friends  
  in the Vineyard of the Lord,  
  and  
  with special gratitude to
  
  
  Monsignor Cornelius J. Burns  
  (1929-1995)
  
  
  who so generously shared with me  
  his love for the great English convert authors
  
  
  He followed the truth. . . It was a wine he thirsted for, he was love-sick for
  its romance . . . a man