Tag: martyrs

Blessed Stanley Rother, the Oklahoma farm-boy turned martyr, died on July 28, 1981.

I first became fascinated in 1977 by watching the “Advent man” John the Baptist on the NBC miniseries Jesus of Nazareth. I was 10. In the episode, Michael York jumped on rocks and

Opening prayer: Lord Jesus, Pope Francis has asked us to contemplate “the martyrs of our own time” saying, “They refuse to deny Jesus and they endure insult and injury with dignity. They

I gave a talk last night in Bendena, Kansas, about martyrs of the 21st century, starting with the Coptic Christians of Egypt and working backwards to some of those killed in the

The mass martyrdoms we are seeing in the Middle East will be followed, as they always are, by a remarkable rise of Christianity that will change the course of history. St. John