I’m not quite sure on what grounds this count as “news.”
Month: June 2004
Happy St. Justin Martyr Day!
Today is the feast of St. Justin Martyr, Patron of Apologists.
He was born in what is now the city of Nablus in Palestine. He lived c. A.D. 100-165, and he was martyred in Rome. He is the greatest of the early Christian apologists and a patron saint of apologetics. His legacy to the Church includes two written apologies for the Christian faith and his famous Dialogue with Trypho the Jew.
To read more about St. Justin Martyr, look here.
To read St. Justin Martyr’s writings, look here.
Christian Arab Denies Christ To Save Life
One has the most extraordinary sympathy for the horrible, inhuman situation the man found himself in, but this was a violation of basic requirements of the gospel.
Fortunately, since the gentleman is probably Catholic or a member of an eastern non-Catholic Church, he at least should have access to the sacrament of reconciliation.
On the other hand, if the four Indians and the Italian mentioned in the story were asked if they were Christian before they were killed and honestly replied that they were then they should end up canonized.