Jan 15, 2026
Ida Friederieke Görres is little-known to English-speaking
Catholics (except perhaps for her biography of St. Therese of
Lisieux), but she was a major voice of the orthodox Catholic laity
in mid-20th-century Germany, with Joseph Ratzinger giving her
eulogy.
Jennifer Bryson has translated Görres’s 1970 essay collection,
Bread Grows in Winter, which is a response to the crisis
in the Church immediately following Vatican II. Görres’s beautiful
and profound writing gives a sense of what it was like to live in
those troubling times, and how we (perhaps especially the laity)
should respond to the troubles of our own times.
Links
“Trusting the Church” on Catholic Culture
Audiobooks
Ida Friederieke Görres, Bread Grows in Winter, trans.
Jennifer S. Bryson
Görres, The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Therese of Lisieux
