Stories to Keep Valor Alive
Many of the heroes mentioned in the book Defenders of Christendom were forced to face their enemies without the help of their Catholic neighbors.
Many of the heroes mentioned in the book Defenders of Christendom were forced to face their enemies without the help of their Catholic neighbors.
Above: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the forest by Carl Larsson (1853–1919) If there was ever a time in history that craved fairy tales, it would be the present age. The emphasis on science, research, and reason has become a common norm in modern society to vest and defend beliefs. But what if…
"For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."
When Pope Euginius IV called for a crusade, only four men responded to the call.
Send down, ye heavens from above, your rain Let righteousness rain down on mortal plains Forget Thy wrath, O Lord, be not enraged And our iniquities remember not Forever, for behold a desert made Is our holy city, to us lost Sion Mount deserted is, and bare A barren waste upon a barren plain Jerusalem…
As their story develops it becomes evident that nothing is quite as it seems.
Faith and doubt, scandal and generosity, married love and unfaithfulness, are woven into a complex and profound tale of heroic sanctity on the part both of Judith and Edmund.
Above: three lay fathers issue their articles of resistance to Pope Francis at the CIC Conference, MMXXII. Photo by Allison Girone. At the risk of oversimplification, I do believe that the present crisis in the Church can be boiled down to a crisis of fatherhood. First, the fathers of the Liberal revolutions (beginning with John…