Diocese of La Crosse Wisconsin pushes for cause of Sainthood for Father Joe Walijewski with a comic. Back in the day, I had the St. Maximilian comic.: Comic book aims to help propel Wisconsin priest, Father Joe Walijewski, into sainthood (yahoo.com) It seems formed has a copy one can read, I will have to find out more about all of this. Voyager Comics: Catholic comics but how lengthy? Sort of expensive.
Seems like a milestone, I'm not too familiar with her but it's been all over the Catholic news: Alice Von Hildebrand: ‘A Happy Failure’ JANUARY 14, 2022 CLAIRE DWYER After reading Memoirs of a Happy Failure by Alice von Hildebrand several years ago, I had the privilege of interviewing the great Belgian-born philosopher, professor, and author. I wanted to know more of the story behind some of the themes of the book, which began with her escape to the United States during World War II and focused on the challenging years she spent teaching–and resisting the growing relativism in academia–at Hunter College in New York City. Von Hildebrand’s recent death had me pulling out the contents of that long email exchange from 2016 in which she generously reflected on these years of her life. My first question: Why name your book Memoirs of a Happy Failure? “Because it conveys an important message,” she answered. Failure, even radical failure, is a justified term because she was “shamefully treated at Hunter: lowest salary in the department, for years…no medical coverage, never knowing whether I would have a job the next semester…given the most exhausting schedule.” Yet, despite it all, she had immense success with her students and earned their affection and admiration. Read more at: https://spiritualdirection.com/2022/01/14/alice-von-hildebrand-a-happy-failure ----------------- Alice Marie von Hildebrand, GCSG[1] (11 March 1923 – 14 January 2022) was a Belgian-born American Catholic philosopher, theologian, author, and professor. Von Hildebrand was also the second wife of Dietrich von Hildebrand. ... ... She made more than 80 appearances on EWTN television programming.[1] In 2004, she launched the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project with some of her husband's former students. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_von_Hildebrand 98 years! Here husband, well known Dietrich and I'm sorry, I've heard the name but I don't know too much about them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_Hildebrand Father Mitch and Alice von Hildebrand: So many of these modern thinkers, there are usually a lot of videos to watch, Dorothy Day and so on.
Alice and Dietrich were great examples of how deep faith can exist in harmony with colossal intellect. Two candidates for sainthood, but they're too busy canonising popes.
It's more proper to take such great lengths of time in an institution concerned with Eternity than the systematic, almost automatic, and immediate canonisation of recently deceased popes. Such clericalism contrasts with the centuries taken to declare St Joan of Arc's sainthood.
What if Ashlee Babbit, the woman shot and killed at the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 was actually trying to be a peacemaker? Epocthimes reports: Babbitt Tried to Stop Attack on Capitol Speaker’s Lobby, Video Shows (theepochtimes.com) Ashli Babbitt desperately tried to prevent rioters from vandalizing the doors leading to the Speaker’s Lobby at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, even stepping between one troublemaker and police officers guarding the doors, a video analysis shows. Frame-by-frame video evidence analyzed by The Epoch Times paints a vastly different picture of Babbitt’s actions than that portrayed in media accounts over the past year. News media regularly painted Babbitt as “violent,” a “rioter,” or an “insurrectionist” who was angrily trying to breach the Speaker’s Lobby. Video clips appear to show she tried to prevent the attack, not join it. Video shot by John Sullivan, also known as Jayden X, shows that Babbitt tried to stop the violence against the Speaker’s Lobby at least four times before she climbed into a broken window and was shot by U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd. At one point, she was so distressed at the violence, she was jumping up and down in frustration. If one is using firefox, one may read the whole story by clicking the read icon in the top url box, it looks like a "page".
Tim, Thank you for posting this. I saw Nick Searcy on the Huckabee show recently, here is the segment(s) of him discussing his new movie called Capitol Punishment - [edited to add this video] I haven't watched this movie yet but I am wondering if anyone has and what their thoughts on it are. Thank you in advance. Here is the link to watch the movie for $9.99 https://capitolpunishmentthemovie.com/ . I wish that it was available for free, sorry. *** Edited to add: If you could please pray for the son of one of my husband's co-workers I would greatly appreciate it. He is 22 years old and was just diagnosed with esophageal cancer and they are having difficulty keeping him stable right now before any treatment has even begun. Thank you you all so very much. I don't have his first name as of yet, I only have his mom's name (Heather) but if/when I get his name I will update this post accordingly. +
Thank you so much Mary's child and everyone else here. *** Edited to add this which I am not certain has been posted already - I'm praying for all of us.+
