Will the Vatican investigate a cardinal implicated in its own abuse trial?
- Feb 26, 2021
Archbishop Rowan Williams offered the example of Malcolm Muggeridge, a celebrated British journalist and satirist who was attracted to Communism in his youth and later converted to Christianity under the influence of St. Teresa of Calcutta.
Mother Teresa’s holiness is the primary reason she’s being declared a saint on Sept. 4, but the canonization also has something to say on other levels — about what mercy looks like in practice, about how to defend the faith from its critics, and about the role of women in the Catholic Church.
Every page written by G.K. Chesteron, an early 20th century convert to Catholicism and widely considered one of the greatest apologists for the Catholic faith in the English language, is like “a bottle of champagne,” said Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles.