St. Henry Morse, SJ, The Plague Priest
By DONAL ANTHONY FOLEY As the threat from the coronavirus pandemic grows more serious, it is illuminating to look at the life of St Henry Morse, SJ (1595-1645), who worked during a time of pestilence with great courage and zeal. He labored as a priest in England at a time of both plague and persecution for Catholics in the first half of the seventeenth century. He can teach us much about how to deal, in a spiritual sense, with the current situation, and is a wonderful example of Christian courage in the face of several outbreaks of the plague. Henry Morse was raised in a Protestant family in the English County of Suffolk, but after the death of his father…Continue Reading