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Martyrs of China, then and now

July 12, 2022 Dawn Beutner 0

On July 9th, the Church remembered the heroic lives and deaths of 120 Chinese martyrs. These men, women, and children died between the years 1648 and 1930. But the practice of the Christian faith did […]

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The lessons of Russian warmaking

July 6, 2022 George Weigel 46

CRACOW. Four and a half months after Russia invaded Ukraine on the Orwellian pretext of displacing a “Nazi” regime — a regime that enjoys a democratic legitimacy absent from Russia for two decades — what […]

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The cardinal and Jimmy

May 25, 2022 George Weigel 2

Tertullian, the first major Christian theologian to write in Latin, is thought to have coined the maxim Semen est sanguis Christianorum, typically (and rather freely) translated as “the blood of martyrs is the seed of […]