October 18th, 2015

by | Oct 18, 2015 | All

It was 7:30 am. We were on the coast of Prince Edward Island with a trailer and a one hundred pound dog. And he wanted to go for a walk. I grabbed my rosary and shoved it in my pocket then grabbed his lead and took him out.It was a beautiful sunny morning. Until I...

was sixtus a pope?

by | Aug 24, 2015 | All

Although Sixtus is claimed to be a pope by the writings of St. Ireneus  and Eusebius, there is not good historical accuracy for that claim. Although it is known  that there were bishops in Asia Minor, such as James, in Jerusalem, and Polycarp, in Smyrna, there does...

pope alexander i

by | Aug 14, 2015 | All

Alexander is reckoned the fifth pope after St. Peter. As with many persons from the early period of the Church, little is known about Alexander. The most likely scenario is that he was a Roman, some say named after his father. Legend has it that he was born at Caput...

Pope st. evaristus

by | Aug 13, 2015 | All

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 3, 2015 | All

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...