Humility Is Compatible with the Rich Dress of One’s Office
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- Created on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 14:05
- Written by Father Francis Spirago
Saint Francis of Sales, the bishop of Geneva, while on a journey during Lent, went to a church that was attached to the monastery of Capuchin friars. He arrived at sermon time; the preacher had taken ostentation in dress as his sermon’s theme and was inveighing vehemently against prelates and ecclesiastical dignitaries…
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“A Fire in My Chest...” - From Shepherdess to Saint
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- Created on Friday, 22 March 2013 20:48
- Written by Andrea F. Phillips
I will never forget emerging from the tiny, white-washed cottage that had been Francisco and Jacinta’s home and seeing the last of their living brothers leaning against a wall...
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Remembering Michael Schwartz, Longtime Defender of Traditional Family Values
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- Created on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 15:00
- Written by TFP.org
The American TFP deeply laments the death of Mr. Michael Schwartz, a longtime friend and defender of innocent life and traditional family values. A devout Catholic, he died on February 3 after a valiant struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS).
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Saint Louis IX in the Exercise of Justice
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- Created on Thursday, 10 January 2013 15:46
- Written by TFP.org
Many a time it chanced in summer, that he would go and sit in the forest of Vincennes, after Mass, and all who had business would come and talk with him, without hindrance from ushers or anyone.
St. Martin of Tours – Patron of Veterans and Soldiers
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- Created on Friday, 21 December 2012 14:55
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He was moved to Pavia in Italy in his early years when his father, a military tribune, was transferred. Martin accompanied him and when he reached adolescence, he was enrolled in the Roman army...
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