Will the present whiff of secularist persecution be a help toward healing what ails American Catholics as a Church? Leaving aside predictions, I’ll only say: it may.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan has a flair for getting people’s attention. The Archbishop of…
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Vicious persecution of faithful Chinese Christians who shun state-run “churches” has always been a problem under the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China. But in recent months it has become an even more serious tragedy as believers are terrorized and religious…
The word “martyr” means “witness.” The first centuries of the Church were spattered red with the blood of the heroic martyrs, but when peace came to the Church there was still a need for heroic witness. Very soon the concept…
Among the prayers of the saints, the Anima Christi ranks as one of my favorites. For years I had contemplated the words, “Intra tua vulnera absconde me” (within your wounds hide me). I wondered, “What could that mean?” Then I…
