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St Acacius | ICN : Bishop of Antioch. According to legend, this 3rd century saint was so revered by his flock that they nicknamed him 'Agathangelus' which means 'The ...

St John of Egypt | ICN : Hermit. Born in Asyut, Egypt, in 304, St John was a carpenter. When he was 25 he went out into the desert to pray and was to became one of the most...

The Corrosion of the British Spirit - Crisis Magazine : If you’ve seen Dunkirk, or Darkest Hour, you got a glimpse of Britain’s fighting spirit in the face of great peril. If you know a little bit more about that period, you know why Churchill could say of the British people, “this was their finest hour.” You could hardly say that now. With a few …

Feast of the Annunciation | ICN : In both the East and West, Mary is the most important of saints - although little is known of her life. St Matthew describes how, when the angel Ga...

Blessed Oscar Romero | ICN : Archbishop and martyr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero was born into a family of ten on 15 August in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. His father was in charge of ...

St Joseph | ICN : Foster father of Jesus and husband of Our Lady. Patron saint of families, homes, hospices, manual workers, especially carpenters, and those who des...

The Protestant Origins of Dysfunctional Education - Crisis Magazine : As a former boarding school teacher, this time of year brings memories of enormous frustration at the chaos, moral and intellectual, that is contemporary American education. While the general disorder is the fault of Adam and Eve, the particular mess has much to do with Luther and Calvin, who not only spawned the Protestant Reformation …

St Louise de Marillac | ICN : Widow. Foundress of the Daughter of Charity. Born in 1591 to an aristocratic family, Louise was educated by nuns at Poissy. Her mother died when sh...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: The Ides of March in Scotland, 1878 : Pope Leo XIII--one of my favorite popes--was elected to the  Chair of St. Peter on February 20, 1878. One of his first acts was to res...

JRS calls for end to cruel detention of torture victims at Harmondsworth | ICN : Jesuit Refugee Services UK has called on the government to end indefinite detention, in response to the latest damning inspection of Harmondsworth ...

Crowdfunding campaign launched to support Cause of John Bradburne | ICN : A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to support the Cause of John Bradburne, a lay missionary and poet, who was shot dead, almost certainly by...

St Dominic Savio | ICN : Child saint. St Dominic was born in 1842 at Riva near Turin. He was one of ten children - his father was a blacksmith and his mother a seamstress. ...

St John of God | ICN : Founder of the Brothers Hospitallers. Patron of hospitals, the sick, booksellers and printers. St John was born in Portugal in 1495. For a few year...

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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blesseds Christopher Bales, Nicholas Horner, and A... : Blessed Christopher Bales, priest and martyr, and companions (laymen who assisted him) Blessed Alexander Blake, and Blessed Nicholas Ho...

St Katharine Drexel | ICN : Nun and foundress. Katharine Drexel was the daughter of a millionaire banker. Born in Philadelphia in 1858, she had an excellent education and trav...

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CDF issues letter to bishops warning of 'new forms of old heresies' | ICN : The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has sent a letter to bishops warning them of 'new forms of old heresies' by stressing individu...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mapping the Martyrs : A gentleman from Yorkshire, Graeme Garvey, who has written for the St. Austin Review and published a website on World War I veterans, am...

A Medieval Remedy for Modernity’s Ills - Crisis Magazine : Show me a Catholic not troubled by the circumstances of these days, and I will show you a Catholic asleep. Society’s woes rock his soul, but the historic perils facing Holy Church do so even more. Not only from outside her walls, but more frighteningly, from within. How are we to keep our spirits from …

The Faithlessness of Public Education - Crisis Magazine : In the wake of the dreadful massacre at the high school in Florida, I asked, via social media, what I thought was a question so obvious that everyone was bound to miss it, just as you do not notice the air you breathe. It was simply this. Why is no one surprised that a deranged …