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...
The legends of Robin Hood and his Merry Men exert a near universal appeal, and have done so for generations. From ballads to books to films, the daring rebel spirit of the Prince of Thieves who, over the course of many mythological transformations, came to be seen as a champion...
How should the Church respond to heretics? Of course, it depends on the person, situation, and historical context. Nonetheless, it can still be helpful to look to precedent. There’s one story that goes all the back to the beginnings of the Church of how the Apostle John responded to...
