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News – Page 49 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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May 21, 2026

The Saint Who Made Peace With Revolutionaries, Pennilessness, and His Mother, by Dawn Beutner 

By  Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report - Bringing the Good News of Christ’s love to everyone was exactly how Eugene de Mazenod wanted to spend his priestly life... When he died on May 21, 1861, Charles-Eugène de Mazenod was mourned by French Catholics as a steadfast bishop, a zealous religious founder, and a humble and inspirational preacher. A century later, Pope Saint John Paul II named him a saint... Charles-Joseph-Eugène de Mazenod.. was born in 1782 into a family that could trace its noble lineage back for more than a century. ...
May 21, 2026

The Moral and Political Wisdom of C.S. Lewis, by Daniel J. Mahoney

By Daniel J. Mahoney, The American Mind - The great Christian apologist and literary critic C.S. Lewis provides a surprising amount of moral and political wisdom despite not being a political thinker in any formal sense of the term. For example, the three lectures that form The Abolition of Man remain a must-read for understanding the crisis of our time, as well as the path to recovering the wisdom that will allow us to overcome it.
May 21, 2026

Fr. James Martin: The “Mastermind” Behind the Two Testimonies in the Vatican’s Synod Report on Homosexuality, by Diane Montagna

By Diane Montagna, Substack - Jesuit Father James Martin was a key figure behind the inclusion of two testimonies in the Study Group No. 9 report on homosexuality, released earlier this month by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod... In an article published today in the Spanish-language online publication Página Católica (reproduced below in English), the author of Testimony 1 — a Portuguese layman openly living in a same-sex union — is revealed to be closely linked to the Jesuit priest.
May 21, 2026

Daily Scripture Readings and Meditations: May They Become Perfectly One

Author Don Schwager, Servants of the Word - John 17:20-26 - 20 "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory which you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 ....

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