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Eldest son of a shoemaker, John was born at Diest, Brabant. He early wanted to be a priest, and when thirteen became a servant in the household of one of the Cathedral canons at Malines, John Froymont. In 1615, he entered the newly founded Jesuit College at Malines, and the following year became a Jesuit…
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Reading 1 Rv 14:1-3, 4b-5 I, John, looked and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of rushing water or a loud peal of thunder….
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On November 25th, the Church honors the virgin martyr Saint Catherine of Alexandria. She is a role model for women who feel called to an intellectual vocation as she was devoted to learning and achieved great knowledge even by a young age. According to the accounts of her life, Saint Catherine was a convert to…
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Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is quite good. But sometimes he skips key details which reveal the Christian vision behind Tolkien’s work. One of these is the climatic episode of Aragorn’s coronation. In Jackson’s film, it rightly shows Gandalf placing the crown on Aragorn’s head, but it removes Frodo’s participation in…