I just read from Whosoeverdesires that it was St. Peter Canisius/Peter Kanis/Petrus Canisius feast day today. I'm good at reading about the saints (especially the early Jesuits) but bad at remembering their feast days.I was studying for Reformation history and I read about him and St. Charles Borromeo, and other Cardinals of the era (Reginald Pole and Contrarini), and was … [Read more...]
The Church Against the Nazis
I've always been taught that Hitler was a Catholic and that the Catholic Church practically smiled upon the Holocaust or at least mindlessly acted as a puppet signing agreements with the Reich government. But I was reading today Pope Pius XI's Mit Brennender Sorge - "With Burning Concern" and it's very interesting to realize that it was the last message of the Pope read in all … [Read more...]