Elizabeth Anscombe is one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. A student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she eventually researched and taught at Oxford for 24 years. She was also a devout convert to Catholicism, taking lots of heat for defending the Church’s most controversial teachings. Her daughter,...
On March 14, 1930, Venerable Maria del Carmen Gonzales-Valerio was born in Madrid, Spain. Following her birth, she become seriously ill. This prompted her to be baptized at an early age. At the age of two, she was confirmed. A family friend, Most Revened Tedeschini wanted to give her the...
St. Simeon couldn’t lose the crowds. Wherever he went, whether it was a city, a mountain, a desert, anywhere, they found him and disrupted his monastic life. Then, while passing through a small town in Syria, he spotted his solution: a column. If he couldn’t escape the crowds...
A knight in a small town in France needed to go hunting and decided to leave his infant son at home sleeping, guarded by his faithful greyhound Guinefort. Upon returning, the knight was distressed to find his home in complete disarray and the child no where to be seen. He...
Heretics have plagued the Church since the very beginning. But how many of them could support their false teaching by flying? That ability was demonstrated in the 1st century by Simon Magus, known in the early Church as the “Father of Heresies.” We first hear about Simon Magus in the...
Are you sure abortion is “as simple as going to the dentist“? Because I’ve never heard of dentists having bloody nightmares of themselves being punished for treating their patients. But that’s exactly what some of the first full-time abortionists in the U.S. suffered from in the early...
