The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
Day: June 4, 2025
Now Is the Time to be a Saint: Facing Antisemitism in the Church
Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana This, more than anything else, is what I have realized in the past year and a half since October 7th, 2023. As a Catholic convert from a Jewish background and as an Israeli-Canadian, the complicated history of antisemitism and the[…]
Father Francis Caracciolo’s Burning Heart of Zeal
Saint Francis Caracciolo (1563 – 1608) was a near contemporary of Saint Philip Neri, whom he resembles in some ways, and with whom the Order he began had a connection. He was born Ascanio dei Caracciolo Pisquizi, of a noble family, with his mother descended from the same line as Thomas Aquinas. Falling deathly ill[…]