Deepertruth with special permission and aid with Franiciscan Media, a great team for the Lord https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-saint-thomas-of-villanova/ spent on the poor in the hospital. What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture?” Thomas composed beautiful sermons, among which stands out the Sermon on the Love of God, one of the great examples of sacred oratory of the 16th century He began his episcopacy by visiting every parish in the Archdioc

During the 17th century, the Catholic Church acted as an aggressive agent of colonization, spiritual conversion, and geopolitical strategy in North America, leading to vastly different outcomes in New France (the Beaver Wars) and New Mexico (the Pueblo Revolt). The Catholic Church in the Beaver Wars (1609–1701) Jesuit missionaries—was deeply embedded in colonial survival and diplomacy. French authorities and Jesuit priests initially restricted French firearms only to Indige

By the intercession of St. Michael and the celestial Choir of Archangels, may the Lord give us perseverance in faith and in all good works, in order that we gain the glory of Paradise. Amen. In traditional Christian angelology, the Celestial Choir of Archangels is the eighth of nine ranks (or "choirs") of angels, situated in the third and lowest hierarchy. While the term "archangel" is often used broadly for any powerful angel, in the formal Celestial Hierarchy established

During the American Civil War, the Roman Catholic Church did not officially split along regional lines, unlike major Protestant denominations (such as the Methodists and Baptists). However, individual Catholics overwhelmingly aligned with the region in which they lived, fighting for both the Union and the Confederacy. At the outbreak of the war, Catholics made up roughly 10 percent of the U.S. population (around 3 million people), heavily concentrated in Northern urban center