Lesson From St. Elizabeth Of The Trinity . . . “This Present Paradise” On Earth Doesn’t Always Feel Like One
By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — When the young woman entered the convent to begin her life as a nun, the government was an opponent of the Catholic Church.The convent’s residents knew they may have to move. The government was interested in the convent’s possessions.It appeared that the local bishop was siding more with the government than with his own Catholic Church. The Vatican was displeased. It was a “collective time of darkness,” a speaker here said, but the Lord was raising up some great saints.This may sound like the U.S. government under the Obama and Biden administrations taking such actions as hounding the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide abortifacients and contraceptives in their health insurance.This may seem to…Continue Reading