Amid his tour of France’s cathedrals, Henri d’Anselme discusses the country’s original vocation as the Church’s historic protector, assesses the spiritual state of Europe — and how faith helped him that fateful day.

Ana Estrada was a 47-year-old Peruvian activist who suffered from polymyositis — an incurable disease that left her confined to a wheelchair.

Orvich also consecrated himself to the Virgin Mary in accord with the 33-day process advocated by St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort.

COMMENTARY: Even though we don’t know what the historical George was really like, what we are left with nevertheless teaches us that divine grace can make us saints and that heroes are very much not dead or a thing of history.

‘Not in this life, it is true, but only in eternity will God be all in all, yet even now he dwells, whole and undivided, in his temple the Church.’ —Pope St. Leo the Great

‘And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight.’ (Luke 24:30-31)

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Much in this document deserves pondering. Too bad readers of certain news outlets wouldn’t know that.