Popes Who Were Married

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes

We are all familiar with the fact that St Peter was married before he was called by Jesus to become an apostle. The Gospel speaks about Peter’s mother-in-law being quite sick and Jesus coming to the house where he cured her. And then she served the men. Whether Peter...

Pope Evaristus

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes

Like the man/God he followed, Evaristus was a Jew, born in Bethlehem. His father, Juda, was of Greek origin, but lived in Bethlehem, only a few miles from the temple in Jerusalem, the goal of all good Jews. Evidently, Juda moved his family from the town, probably just...

Cletus The Third Pope?

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Popes

There are many transcription and memory mistakes made when a group of people are writing to one another in the middle of a war. The “war” was the intermittent persecution of Christians from Nero to Domitian to Marcus Aurelius and onward until the early 300s. The...

St. Ignatius of Antioch

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Saints

One could say that anyone who has anything interesting to say may be evangelizing for their interests. In the current case, we are going to look at the numerous people who have evangelized for the Roman Catholic Church. Many of these people, by way of their successes,...

St. Romuald

by | Aug 16, 2019 | Saints

FEBRUARY 7* is the traditional memorial of ST. ROMUALD (+1027). Romuald was born in Ravenna, Italy, around 950. He was of the aristocratic Onestis. Romuald lived the standard self-indulgent life of the well-to-do until, at the age of 20, he was a second for his father...