mediamissionaries

St Aidan | ICN : Monk of Iona, first bishop and abbot of Lindisfarne. Born in Ireland, St Aidan came to England in the 7th century when King Oswald was living in exile with the monks at Iona, during the Mercian invasion. The King became Christian and when he regained his throne he gave Aidan the island...

St Rose of Lima | ICN : The first saint of the New World, Saint Rose is the patron of South America and the Philippines.She was born into a moderately wealthy Spanish family in Lima, Peru in 1586. The family lost everything everything when their business failed. Rose worked in the garden all day a...

Cardinal Nichols expresses sorrow and shame about abuse in the Church | ICN : Cardinal Vincent Nichols has written to clergy of Westminster diocese in response to the letter from Pope Francis on the abuse of children in the Church.In the letter, the Cardinal expresses sorrow and shame, saying:'I am so sorry for the hurt that has been caused, primari...

St Symphorian | ICN : Martyr. This third or fourth century saint was one of the most revered martyrs of Roman Gaul. According to tradition, Symphorian was a young nobleman who was converted by Benignus at Autun. When he was accused of showing contempt for the goddess Cybele during a festival in her honour...

Austin Ruse - Former Methodist - The Coming Home Network : Austin Ruse came from a nominally Methodist background, with a few flashes of grace along the way. However, when he was in college and heard a professor attack religion, it...

St Pius X | ICN : Pope. Born in 1835, he was the son of a shoemaker and postman who lived near Treviso in Italy.He went to the local village school before joining the seminary near Padua. He spent the next 17 years in parish work before being appointed chancellor of the diocese in Treviso. Ni...

Peru: Jesuit priest killed | ICN : A Spanish Jesuit missionary priest working amng the indigenous people in Peru's Amazonia regions has been killed. The body of Father Carlos Riudavets Montes was found on Friday morning with his hands tied and several stab wounds lying in the kitchen of the Valentín Salegui school he ra...

Pope Francis: 'It is evil not to do good!' | ICN : In his address to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis said being a good Christian is more than merely not doing evil - A good Christian does good and actively opposes evil.'The Pope was reflecting on the day's Second Reading, in which S...

The Liberal Catholic Legacy: From Strict Separation to 'Social Justice' - Crisis Magazine : John F. Kennedy delivered a memorable speech in the presidential campaign of 1960, proclaiming the absolute separation of church and state.  His words still reverberate among American Catholics, as we saw during the primary season of 2012 when Senator Rick Santorum said Kennedy’s speech made him “throw up.”  Naturally, this got our attention and made …