Saints and Slavery, Ancient and Modern
When we see injustice committed around us—from an unkind word spoken to a coworker to acts of physical violence—it’s easy to ignore the situation out of fear. It’s also easy to be outraged and then […]
When we see injustice committed around us—from an unkind word spoken to a coworker to acts of physical violence—it’s easy to ignore the situation out of fear. It’s also easy to be outraged and then […]
In the first part of this essay, we considered the heroic lives of virtue and acts of martyrdom of the ten men and women who are scheduled to be canonized by Pope Francis on Sunday, […]
On May 15, 2022, Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize ten men and women. According to the Congregation of the Causes of Saints website, these ten individuals will no longer be called blesseds, but they […]
President Biden, recently and wrongly, implied that Saint Thomas Aquinas would side with him to support legalized abortion . Some pro-choice supporters (also wrongly) claim Saint Antoninus of Florence as their patron saint. Both claims […]
It’s often a shock to faithful Catholics when people who reject the moral teaching of the Church try to use canonized saints to support their arguments against that teaching. It is more than a little […]
Are there any saintly Catholics who lived under Communist governments, died as martyrs, and are remembered by the Church during the month of May? Unfortunately, there is no shortage of blesseds who fit that description. […]
When I wrote my first book about saints, I believed it was important for it to include every well-known saint and blessed, as well as many lesser-known ones. After all, it had annoyed me greatly […]
On April 2, the Catholic Church commemorates Blessed Nicholas Charnetsky, a Ukrainian Catholic bishop who suffered martyrdom at the hands of Soviet Communists. What can his life teach us about how to live out our […]
Why is it so helpful to use material analogies to better understand immaterial concepts? Because we are human beings, of course, and because our bodies are part of who we are. Unlike angels, we really […]
One could say that Leonid Feodorov died a martyr because he had two strongly held but unpopular beliefs. He believed that: 1) there is a God, and 2) the Church that Christ founded is the […]
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