Interior Castle: The Classic Text With a Spiritual Commentary (Classics With Commenatry) - Softcover

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Dennis Billy, CSsR, is a teacher, writer, and poet. Ordained a Redemptorist priest in 1980, he is professor emeritus of the Alphonsian Academy at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

Billy is the author of numerous books and articles, both popular and scholarly. He is also very active in retreat work and in the ministry of spiritual direction. A native of Staten Island, New York, he graduated from Dartmouth College and went on to receive five master's degrees from universities around the world, as well as a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was a Carmelite nun, reformer, theologian, and mystic and the author of many essential spiritual classics of the Catholic tradition, including The Interior Castle and The Way of Perfection. She was canonized in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, and Pope Paul VI named her a Doctor of the Church in 1970.