Who is St. Robert Bellarmine?
Saint Robert BellarminePatron Saint of Religious EducationBy Rev. Arthur J. Driscoll Several years ago, a man came to the door of the rectory at St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, Andover, Massachusetts and announced to the pastor: “If this is the Church of St. Robert Bellarmine, you must be Jesuit!” He was rather amazed to find out […]
Fr. John Hardon, a ‘One Man Army of God’
In this article, Paul Likoudis praises the life, mind, and works of Father John A. Hardon, one of the country’s foremost theologians and catechists. Detroit — Jesuit Fr. John Hardon, this country’s foremost theologian and catechist, died December 30 at the Colombiere Retreat House in suburban Detroit. He was 86. “He was a one-man army […]
Elijah
Each Passover, a special cup of wine is filled and put on the seder table. During the Seder, the door of the house is opened and everyone stands to allow Elijah the Prophet (Eliyahu ha-Navi) to enter and drink. At every bris, a chair is also set aside for Elijah. At the conclusion of Shabbat, […]
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622). Born in the family castle at Thorens, Savoy, on August 21, he studied at Annecy and the Jesuit college of Clermont in Paris, 1580-88, and then studied law and theology at the University of Padua, receiving his doctorate in law when only twenty-four. Despite the opposition of his family and […]
The Life of Sister Faustina Kowalska.
Victor R. Claveau, MJ The Life of Sister Faustina Kowalska. Victor R. Claveau, MJ Sister Mary Faustina Kowalska was a Polish nun, visionary, and mystic. By all accounts, she was an ordinary person, whom God chose to touch in extraordinary ways. We do not have accurate and first-hand knowledge of her life. The chief source […]
Joseph Smith Jr.
On the 27th of June 1844, Joseph Smith Jr the founder of the sect of Latter-Day Saints, and who claimed to have been divinely commissioned as a “Prophet, Seer, and Revelator,” was killed by a mob at the jail in Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois. Born in the State of Vermont, reared in Western New York, […]
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Asa H. Craig, (Asa Hollister), 1847-1934 One of the greatest generals the world ever produced was Napoleon Bonaparte — not great in deeds of charity and Christian forbearance, but great in the deeds of heroic valor. His whole life was one of restless ambition. Born under the influence of military laws, cradled in national strife, […]
John Calvin & Huldrych Zwingli.
Asa H. Craig, (Asa Hollister), 1847-1934 Outside of Martin Luther and Henry VIII, John Calvin was the most noted character in the days of the Reformation. The nature of John Calvin was aristocratic, rather than democratic. He taught reform in laws as well as religion, but in practice governed with absolute despotism. He was dictatorial, […]
JULIAN, THE APOSTATE.
Asa H. Craig, (Asa Hollister), 1847-1934 Roman idolatry was not destined to die without one last desperate struggle. Hardly twenty-five years had passed after the death of Constantine, when we find the dying embers of paganism revived by the official authority of Julian, the & Apostate. This emperor was a nephew of Constantine, and was […]
The Conversion of Constantine.
Asa H. Craig, (Asa Hollister), 1847-1934 Up to the time of Constantine the Great the life of the Christian had been one of deepest persecution. During these three hundred years the strength of Christianity had proved its divine origin. No creed of man, or power of human strength, could have withstood the constant martyrdom that […]