Select Page
by bcadmin | Sep 16, 2022 | Between the Sundays, disagreement, Faith, Featured, fidelity, Living the Faith, Love, martyrdom, Martyrs, Mercy, News, Persecution, Pope St. Cornelius, St. Cyrpian, Theology, Unity | 0 |
Today, September 16, is the feast of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian, two friends from the early Church who were martyred for the Faith. Cornelius was elected Pope after the papacy was vacant for almost a year, due to Emperor Decius’ persecution of th…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 24, 2022 | discipleship, Jesus Christ, martyrdom, Nathanael, News, Psalm 102, Saint Bartholomew, St Ignatius of Antioch, The Dispatch | 0 |
As it often does with the events of the Gospels, the streaming series The Chosen adds to the drama of the encounter between Jesus and Nathanael in John 1:45-51 by employing a bit of artistic […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Communism, martyrdom, Michal Tomaszek, News, Peru, Poland, St. Francis of Assisi, The Dispatch, Zbigniew Adam Strzalkowski | 0 |
The year 1968 was a dramatic one, all over the world. In 1968, the president of Peru was deposed in a military coup. His successor lasted several years until he was also deposed during a […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | lead, martyrdom, News, Pope Francis, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis Friday recognized the martyrdom of Father Petro Paolo Oros, a priest from the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo, Ukraine, who was shot to death by Soviet communists in Siltse in August 1953.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | 2022, Columns, James Matthew Wilson's "I Am Weak", Jesuits in Japan, Jesus Christ, martyrdom, Matthew 26:41, News, Shusaku Endo’s Silence, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
The spiritual life has its ages as much as the rest of our lives do. I recall, and have written…
The post I Am Weak appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Argentina, Church in the Americas, Congregation for the Cause of Saints, lead, martyrdom, News | 0 |
With the consent of Pope Francis, the Vatican authorized the preliminary investigation to see if an Argentine military officer kidnapped and allegedly killed by a Marxist group in the 1970s was a martyr.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | José Luis Sanchez del Rio, martyrdom, News, Pope Francis, Rolando Rivi, St. Pancras, St. Tarcisius, St. Venantius, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: The following homily preached at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on the liturgical memorial of St. Venantius (May 18, 2022/EF). One of the several saints noted in the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Iraq, Isis, lead, martyrdom, News, Nineveh Plains | 0 |
After several days of searching, the remains of two Syrian Chaldean martyrs, killed for their faith by the Ottoman Empire, were found last week in a chapel outside of the Christian village of Qaraqosh, in Iraq’s Nineveh Plain.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | courage, Featured, Heaven, Hell, martyrdom, News, Spiritual Warfare | 0 |
The word Catholic translates as “universal” in the sense of“whole and inviolate.” There is one Truth – Jesus said “I am the way, the Truth, and the Life” – vs. myriad false doctrines. Evil is diverse and varied in its perversions, whereas good is constant and irreducible. As with Tolstoy’s happy families, the saints express […]
by bcadmin | Feb 13, 2022 | 2022, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr., Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, make disciples of all nations, martyrdom, News, Persecution, Religious Liberty Now, The Catholic Thing, tribulation | 0 |
“I humbly request that you lose the victim mentality,” a critic wrote to me recently, arguing that ours is a…
The post Religious Liberty Now appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, martyrdom, News, Pakistan, saints and martyrs | 0 |
Akash Bashir, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard who was killed by a suicide bomber in 2015, is the first Pakistani to be given the title, “servant of God,” an initial step on the path to sainthood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Church in the Middle East, Jesuits, lead, martyrdom, News, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |
The beatification of the Dutch Jesuit father Frans van der Lugt, who was murdered in Syria in 2014, is off the table – and most likely permanently.
Read More
Recent Comments