On the day of Bartolo Longo's beatification, October 26, 1980, Pope John Paul II called him a "man of the Madonna"; he later called him "a true apostle of the rosary" and "a layman who lived his ecclesial pledge to…
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Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P - who has written 3 posts on Catholic Exchange.
Exalting the Cross of Contradiction
Posted on 14 September 2007
Today we Catholics celebrate the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. To some, this celebration seems to be unreasonable, or even a distortion of Christianity.
For one thing, Catholics seem to contradict the words of Christ, for he said…
St. Jerome Feminist?
Posted on 30 September 2006
Some saints seem made for controversy. It is not that they enjoyed arguing. Rather, their holy daring was foolishness to some and a stumbling block to others. And if they were intellectuals, the saints defended their folly of the Cross.…
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