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El_Greco_-_St._Jude_Thaddeus_-_Google_Art_Project. St Thaddeus (Jude), between 1610 and 1614. The author died in 1614, so this work is in the public domain...
By Matthew Becklo, Catholic World Report, Oct. 28, 2025
Matthew Becklo is a husband and father, writer and editor, and the Publishing Director for Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His first book, The Way of Heaven and Earth: From Either/Or to the Catholic Both/And, is available now from Word on Fire.
A desire to justify, explain away, or otherwise turn a blind eye to behaviors that the biblical tradition consistently condemns is one of the clearest signs that a Christian has fallen on the wrong path.
Saint Jude, whose feast the Church celebrates on October 28, is known the world over for his patronage—that of hopeless causes—and for the Children’s Research Hospital named in his honor.
But what some might not know about Jude is that he’s identified, traditionally, as the author of one of the letters of the New Testament. And that unique and power-packed epistle constitutes a kind of schema for identifying false Christian teachers, of any kind, in any age. …
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*Image: Saint Bernardby an unknown artist, c. before 1135 [Bodleian Library, University of Oxford]. This is the earliest known representation of Saint Bernard and the only one that survives from his lifetime. The image is in a manuscript of his first treatise, The Steps of Humility, a pastoral work in which Bernard addresses his fellow monks on the monastic virtues.
