Christ teaches his disciples that it is not our place to judge those asking for help if we are able to give.
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Posted inDispatches
Church in Argentina remembers martyrs as Milei administration downplays ‘dirty war’ atrocities
The 50th anniversary of the Argentina’s military dictatorship arrived amid controversy in the country.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
Pope Leo marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death with calls for prayer and peace
“St. Francis repaired the church by virtue of his faith in the Lord Jesus, healing the rifts of discord through the witness of fraternal love.”
Posted inFaith in Focus
Fulton Sheen’s beatification ceremony was a model of evangelization for the whole church
Sometimes the best evangelization is not trying to evangelize.
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Archbishop Gomez: 100 years later, we must remember the martyrs of Mexico’s anti-Catholic persecutions
During the persecutions that followed the Mexican Revolution of 1917, priests were executed by firing squad. Ordinary Catholics, even teenagers, were imprisoned, tortured and murdered.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Fulton Sheen’s beatification: An event as simple as a peasant dress
The beatification of Blessed Fulton Sheen this week in St. Louis was many things—but at bottom, it was just a very nice Christian spiritual event filled with goodness.
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Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen declared ‘Blessed’ at beatification Mass in St. Louis
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen — the 20th-century theologian, evangelizer, Catholic communications pioneer, teacher and preacher — is now Blessed Fulton J. Sheen.
Posted inFeatures
In the footsteps of St. Francis: How my travels through Italy brought me closer to a beloved saint
All of life was a pilgrimage for St. Francis of Assisi. It only made sense, 800 years after his death, that I would go on my own pilgrimage in search of him.
Posted inYour Take
Our readers: What would Fulton Sheen make of modern politics?
“Sheen was a rock star who made being Catholic singular. No one lifted me up as much as Fulton during my teens.”
Posted inShort Take
Fulton Sheen, the love of God and the civil rights movement
Sheen preached eloquently that racism and other attacks on civil rights were direct attacks on all human beings and, ultimately, God himself.