Saints of Past Ages: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Amid ongoing controversy surrounding the German theologian executed by the Nazis, PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, looks at his life and legacy…
Columns : Saints of Past Ages
Saints of Past Ages: St Isidore of Seville – the patron saint of the internet who shaped knowledge for generations
DARIUS VON GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI, of Australian Catholic University, looks at the life of St Isidore of Seville, named patron saint of the internet by Pope John Paul II…
Saints of Past Ages: Santa Claus was inspired by a real figure who fought against miscarriages of justice
BRIAN THORNTON, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at some lesser known incidents in the life of the Byzantine bishop born in what is today Turkey…
Saints of Past Ages: Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science and statistics to nursing
MELISSA PRITCHARD, author of a biographical novel about Nightingale, looks at the life and legacy of the “Lady with the Lamp”…
Saints of Past Ages: Maria Antonia de Paz y Figueroa
DÉBORA REY, of Associated Press, looks at the life of “Mama Antula”…
Saints of Past Ages: Who was St Brigid and why is she inspiring many 1,500 years after her death?
In a special report, PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, looks at how St Brigid is being commemorated 1500 years after her death… AP Devotees of St Brigid celebrated her Sunday with the return of a relic associated with the so-called matron saint of Ireland. The festivities came about a millennium
Saints of Past Ages: Blaise Pascal, one of the first to grapple with the role of faith in an age of science and reason
DAVID HOINSKI says – in an article first published on The Conversation – that the Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today…
Saints of Past Ages: How Frances Willard shaped feminism by leading the temperance movement
CHRISTOPHER H EVANS, professor of the history of Christianity at Boston University, looks – in an article published on The Conversation – at the life and legacy of a key US temperance movement leader…
Saints of Past Ages: Mother Teresa – the first great saint of the television era
In a Saints of Past Ages special, biographer JON M SWEENEY, in an article adapted from his new biography ‘Teresa of Calcutta: Dark Night, Active Love’, says Mother Teresa’s story is so well known that we don’t really know her…
Saints of Past Ages: St Anne
In a special Saints of Past Ages, EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, takes a look at St Anne and why she is so important to Indigenous peoples in Canada…
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