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America’s Earliest Martyrs for Marriage to be Beatified

Beverly Willett

In the late sixteenth century, indigenous Guale Indians murdered five Franciscan friars in missions along the Georgia coast. It’s fair to call them the first martyrs for marriage on...

Dear Pope Francis: Remember the Standers

Beverly Willett

Pope Francis has spoken often about the problem of family breakdown. “The family is the fundamental cell of society,”the Holy Father told bishops, clergy, and laypersons during the first...