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St. Clare, TV’s patron
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jmcgee
August 11 is the feast of a familiar saint, Clare of Assisi. I know her well. We have a beautiful engraving of St. Clare hanging in the small chapel of the NET, where I work, and visitors are often surprised when I explain that she’s the patron saint of television. They stare at me blankly…
St. Lawrence, guardian of the Church’s treasures
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jmcgee
St. Lawrence by Deacon Lawrence Klimecki Today marks the feast of a patron for deacons, St. Lawrence, guardian of the treasures of the Church. St. Ambrose reports that when Deacon Lawrence was ordered by the prefect to turn over the Church’s wealth, he spent three days rounding up the city’s poor, the crippled, the blind…
On Edith Stein, “Martyr for love”
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jmcgee
“St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was able to understand that the love of Christ and human freedom are intertwined, because love and truth have an intrinsic relationship. The quest for truth and its expression in love did not seem at odds to her; on the contrary she realized that they call for one another.…
“You. Did. This. To. Me.”
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jmcgee
Those five words are printed on my copy of a new biography of Mother Teresa, just published by TIME magazine, “Mother Teresa at 100: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint.” The author, Former TIME religion writer David Van Biema, stopped by “Currents” recently to talk about the book, and when I asked him…
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