POPES ROMANUS AND THEODORE

by | Sep 5, 2020 | Popes

The 9th century had turned into a disaster for the Church, and Italy. Not only were the Saracens attacking southern Italy and Sicily, cities were becoming independent and thinking for themselves. Popes were chased out, pushed out or killed in rapid succession. One...

ST. DRITHELM

by | Sep 1, 2020 | Saints

In the late 600s, there lived a man named Drithelm, whose home was in Cunninghame, Northumbria. Today, that would be quite near the border of Scotland and England, not to far from the North Sea. Drithelm was a wealthy man, married, with a devout Catholic family. In...