…Introduction
This Biography is an abridgment of The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages published in 1902 by Father Horace Mann DD, that has been cut, edited, rearranged and sometimes supplemented with the Editor’s (Noah Moerbeek) own remarks, ideas and expressions.
The Pope and the Patriarchs by Father Southwell
The Primacy of the Pope in the Early Church
…Editors Remarks:
It is often times asserted that their is very little evidence in the Early Church for the Primacy of the Pope and his universal jurisdiction.
…What can we Learn from the Desert Fathers today?
We can learn what the Apostle of Rome learned. St Philip lived over 1000 years from the time of St Anthony the Great and St Paul of Thebes, yet in his cassock he always carried a copy of the writings of the Desert Fathers.[2] St Philip Neri, shortly before the feast of Pentecost, received the Holy Ghost in a superabundance (as a globe of fire) that enlarged his heart so much it physically broke his ribs and as his ribs healed to account for his oversized heart they formed a permanent arch.[1]
We can say that the Desert Fathers were an example to this great Saint whose heart literally burned with love for Jesus.
St. Kateri Tekakwitha was a Mohawk convert to Catholicism. Her natural disposition inclined her to be shy and to not speak much. She was instructed in her Catechism orally, with pictures and with hymns as most of the Indians were at that time. …
Saint Kateri: The Lily at the Foot of the Cross…
This Biography is an abridgment of The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha published in 1891 by Ellen Wallworth, that has been cut, edited, rearranged and sometimes supplemented with the Editor’s (Noah Moerbeek) own remarks, ideas and expressions.
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In a few weeks on October 21, 2012, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha will be canonized. What will the world say when she is canonized? If current articles on her are any indication, she is “known for” teaching children and caring for the sick, and that she had a streak of feminism in her [2].