Fr. Aloysius Schwartz & The Catholics Who Changed the World
They Changed the World As the Church goes, so goes the world. That statement gave me pause when I first heard it. Arrogant? Inflated? True? I landed on the latter. Two millennium ago, Christians who changed the world were not at odds with other denominations because there weren’t any. Occasional heresy, yes, but diverting from […]
Today is the release date of Kevin Wells’ most recent book, Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz. Wells continues his search for the authentic spiritual fatherhood of the priest, which he began in The Priests We Need to Save the Church through the example of his uncle, Monsignor Tommy Wells. Venerable […]
On March 16, 1992, Fr. Al breathed his last, after three years of suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig’s Disease. This suffering was no accident. “Our role is to mingle our blood with the blood of Christ”, he once said, “and to shed our blood with that of Christ to the poor. … The way we serve is to have a constant crown of thorns.”
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