With the intensification of Christian martyrdom across the globe in recent years, and most especially the recent martyrdom of Father Jacques Hamel, I found it very fitting today to rebrand an article that […]
Quick Lessons from the Catechism: The Witness of Martyrdom
Two days ago I was sitting in Mass when I noticed that in my Daily Roman Missal on the liturgical calendar, in the Latin Church, the first four saint memorials for the […]
Pope Francis on Martyrdom
Today we celebrate the memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, young martyrs of the early church around the year 203 A.D. St. Perpetua was a woman of Carthaginian nobility and also a […]
10 Quotes from Pope Benedict XVI on Christian Love
In light of the martyrdom of St. Valentine, who was beaten with clubs, beheaded, buried under the cover of darkness, and was disinterred by his followers; I feel it necessary to write […]
The Great Saint of Auschwitz
Today we commemorate the great saint of Auschwitz – Saint Maximilian Kolbe. St. Maximilian Kolbe was born, Raymond, to Julius Kolbe and Mary Dabrowska on January 17, 1894. At the age of […]
5 Things We Can Learn from the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
In the year 257, the Roman Emperor Valerian ordered that all Christians as well as Bishops, priests, deacons, and Pope Sixtus II, were to be apprehended and put to death. One year […]
Saint Maximilian Kolbe – The Saint of Auschwitz
Today we commemorate the great saint of Auschwitz, Saint Maximilian Kolbe. St. Maximilian was born, Raymond, to Julius Kolbe and Mary Dabrowska on January 17, 1894. At the age of ten years […]
Holiness and Martyrdom as a Catholic in America
When Cardinal Timothy Dolan received his red hat on February 18, he said that he was grateful to the Holy Father for giving him this honor, but he just wants to be […]
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