
A Lenten Sacrifice in Shimabara
In his hatred for Christ, the Shogun Iemitsu acted as if he were possessed — and the Christians of Japan felt his wrath.
In his hatred for Christ, the Shogun Iemitsu acted as if he were possessed — and the Christians of Japan felt his wrath.
‘I cannot forget his sacrifice,’ said Father Francis Gulzar, who was saying Mass when Akash Bashir gave up his life to prevent a suicide bomber from entering the church.
COMMENTARY: While there is always a natural revulsion to the killing of the innocent, there is also from a sacramental view something quite glorious about Dominican Father Giuse Tran Ngoc Thanh’s death.
SAINTS & ART: St. Agnes is a reminder that the gift of virginity exists as an expression of devotion and availability to God
ANALYSIS: Irish Catholics will increasingly need the courage, wisdom and perseverance of martyrs like St. Oliver Plunkett to spread the faith in a society hostile to the Gospel.
“While Edmund still called out to Christ, the heathen dragged the holy man to his death, and with one stroke struck off his head.”
As we are seeing it played out in the Society of Jesus, social reform cannot be separated from the proclamation of the gospel.
The Coptic Orthodox Church proclaimed the 21 men to be martyrs.
A national place of pilgrimage closed for lack of Jesuit priests is experiencing the start of a new era, thanks to a joint Catholic effort.
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