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  Venerable Edward Mico, SJ Born: circa 1647 Died: 24 November 1678 Edward Mico was born in Essex, England of Catholic parents. At the age of about fifteen, he enrolled at the English College in Saint-Omer, Flanders and about four years later, he went to the English College in Rome. There Edward became acquainted with the Jesuits and later managed to get the permission of the Jesuit Father General to enter the Society. He interrupted his course in philosophy and left Rome to join the English Jesuit novitiate at Watten, Flanders on March 28, 1650. After his noviceship training, Edward went to Liege for his philosophical studies and later, theology. He was ordained on March 31, 1657. After that he taught for a while at Saint-Omer and may have gone to the English mission as early as 1661. He carried out his priestly ministry in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorset and Sussex and served under three successive provincials during the last six years of his live. Fr Mico accompanied Fr Thomas Whit...

  Doctrine of the Faith: Monogamy is not a limitation but a promise of the infinite - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2025-11/doctrine-of-faith-monogamy-not-limitation-but-promise-infinite.html

  Meeting with Latvian pilgrims, Pope offers spiritual advice for 'turbulent times' - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-latvian-pilgrims-evika-silina-war-hope.html

  Pope Leo issues Apostolic Letter 'In unitate fidei' on Nicaea Anniversary - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-issues-apostolic-letter-in-unitate-fidei-on-nicaea.html

  Shakespeare Makes a Fool of His Censors By  Joseph Pearce | November 20th, 2025 | Categories:  Joseph Pearce ,  Literature ,  Senior Contributors ,  William Shakespeare Heeding Shakespeare’s insistence that we need to heed the wisdom of the fool, it shocked me that a recent production of “King Lear” at a local Christian university had excised most of the key speeches of Poor Tom, which enunciate radical Christian wisdom, thus eviscerating Shakespeare’s profound moral vision. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God…. (1 Corinthians 3:19). The above epigraph from Scripture serves splendidly as an epigraph to Shakespeare’s  King Lear  and as an epigram that encapsulates the play’s deepest meaning. The whole play plays paradoxically with the radical abyss that separates worldly wisdom from that other wisdom, the sanity of sanctity, which the world sees as madness. Since this is so, we should play particular attention to the “foolishness...