by Editor | Dec 18, 2023 | Christmas, Martyrdom, Saints
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. It is remarkable that the day after Christmas we should be celebrating the feast of a martyr. The custom goes back to the very early Church. It seems that in her wisdom, the Church wanted to make sure that we associated Christ with...
by Editor | Aug 21, 2023 | Saints, St. Joseph
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. If there was one fact of our Christian faith which needs to be stressed today it is the need for a father in the family. At the center of the social revolution today is the attack on men, as husbands and fathers of families. Behind this...
by Editor | Sep 25, 2020 | Holiness, Saints
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Two years before her death, Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face wrote to her aunt, Isidore Guerin: I love to read the lives of the saints very much. The account of their heroic deeds inflames my courage and spurs me on to...
by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | America, Apostolate, Conversion, Evangelization, Prayer, Saints
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen – Author, Orator and Missionary by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. During the Tre Ore sermon which he preached on Good Friday some years ago, Fulton J. Sheen asked his audience: “If Jesus Christ thirsted for souls, must not a Christian...
by Editor | Sep 28, 2019 | Mariology, Saints
Devotion of St. Thérèse of Lisieux to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. A new stage is developing in the devotion of the faithful to St. Thérèse of Lisieux. In 1947, the fiftieth anniversary of her death, a congress of theologians was held in Paris...
