Welcome to the Abbey

Leibowitz Abbey is a monastery that is located in the minds of all those who have read Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s 1959 classic A Canticle for Leibowitz; if you are not among those who have, I can only suggest that you do so as soon as possible.

This site--the virtual home of Leibowitz Abbey--is intended to complement the more extensive paradigm change site From the Catacombs, intended for a more diverse readership. The monastery pictured to the right is the Seminario Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, more about which below.

It is my belief that the Western world is soon to undergo paradigm change; what form it will take, no one can truly say. It is also my belief that thanks to our God-given free will, we can elect the form we hope it will take for us.

The "Albertian Order of Leibowitz" in the novel had as its mission the protection and preservation of the written remnants of the "Magna Civitas," the civilization which perished in the the fictional "Flame Deluge," the nuclear holocaust much feared in the late 1950s.

This writer sees a dumbing-down of the population akin to a holocaust and is determined to create a library of what he believes will be documents of great value to those who, social engineering notwithstanding, will want to learn from the learning of generations past. Those who believe in this mission will be asked to donate books and/or funds so that this library can be built and stocked in a location "far from the madding crowds" who might one day wish to destroy it. Yes: destroy, hard as that may be to believe at this moment.

Slowly but surely, a catalog of volumes to be included will appear on this site. Information about short courses, language courses, skilled trade courses and other learning experiences available through "Leibowitz Abbey" will be posted as plans are firmed up into projects. These undertakings will be carried out with the active participation of religious from the Traditional Catholic Seminario Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, a nearly entirely self-sufficient small monastery/seminary located in a spectacular setting near the Argentin-Patagonian village of El Bolsón.

Now... read the book!