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Pope Francis

  • Dad, Mom, and Seven Children; Executed together in 1944– Beatified together in 2025

    Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and Children public domain Over the years I have written about many saints. Most of them have been little known.  The truth is, I have loved searching  the  treasure troves of stories and essays and autobiographies and biographies of Catholic heroes and heroines. But among them all there has only been…

  • Thoughts about the great paradox we call “life support.”

    Who should choose  Life or Death for a Child?  The Government or the Parent? By Larry Peterson Upon order of the courts in Great Britain, eight-month-old Indi Gregory was removed from life support today (November 13, 2023). She passed away in a few hours. I now share the paradox of what is called “life-support.” We…

  • Sometimes we need a Coach in the Pulpit

    By Larry Peterson We Catholics hear much about how we must evangelize. Unfortunately, most Catholics do not know how to do it. Most of us even avoid discussion with each other about controversial topics in the Church. Certainly, none of us are going to stand on a milk crate on a street corner, hold up…

  • Corpus Christi—Taking Jesus public all around the World

    By Larry Peterson This Day is for putting Jesus on Display The Bishops of the United States have proclaimed that 2022 is the year for a National Eucharistic Revival. This revival will launch on June 19, 2022, on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. (The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ). It…

  • Pope recites special prayer for end to war in Ukraine

    By Larry Peterson The prayer was composed by the Archbishop of Naples, Domenico Battaglia. Pope Francis  read the prayer and pleaded with God to forgive all of humanity for the horrors of war. Pope Francis invited Christians to “ask God for forgiveness and to grant peace” in Ukraine. The Pope pleads with God to forgive…

  • Our Leaders take Oaths on the Bible to Defend Life

    By Larry Peterson Certain things are joined together in perpetuity. This is demonstrated when a president, or any public official, lays a hand upon a Bible and swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and defend life. The Presidential Oath is administered by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The 35 words…

  • These Three Nurses accepted Martyrdom rather than Deny their Catholic Faith

    By Larry Peterson This is about three young women. They were all Red Cross nurses but had been mistaken for Catholic nuns. The year was 1936, and the Civil War in Spain was raging. The Catholic clergy was a prime target for the government militia. The three nurses were taken prisoner by the rebel soldiers.…

  • She was executed for loving too much: Meet Sr. Aguchita

    By Larry Peterson Maria Agustina Rivas Lopez was born on June 13, 1920, in Coracora, Peru. She was the oldest of eleven children born to Modesta Lopez de Rivera and Damaso Rivas. They gave their daughter the name of Antonia Luzmilla. Antonia and her siblings had loving and caring parents who taught their children the…

  • This “martyr for purity” was killed in 1982 in Brazil

    By Larry Peterson The date has not been set for the beatification of Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos was born in Brazil, in the ancient city of  Barbacena, on July 29, 1962. A few weeks later, on the feast of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption, her parents had her baptized in the parish…

  • He played football and learned the pain in his leg was not from football; it was bone cancer. He was eleven years old.

    By Larry Peterson Angiolino Bonetta was born on Septemeber 18,1948, in Cigole, a town in northern Italy located in the Diocese of Brescia, a diocese established in the first century. His parents, Francesco Bonetta and Giulia Scarlatti were not poor and managed to make ends meet, but there were no “extras.”  As Angiolino grew, he…