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The Lions Come, by Matt Archbold – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Lions Come, by Matt Archbold

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, “The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer,” ca. 1863-1883, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (photo: Public Domain)

By Matt Archbold, National Catholic Register, January 12, 2026

Matt Archbold Matt Archbold graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in 1995. He is a former journalist who left the newspaper business to raise his five children. He writes for the Creative Minority Report.

COMMENTARY: From Rome’s arenas to today’s streets, every attempt to silence the faith only strengthens it.

Matt ArchboldIn the bustling, hustling chaos of the modern world, there is a truth as ancient as the stones beneath us: The lions come. That is the raw, unadorned reality etched into the marrow of Christian history. The lions come — silent predators lurking behind the veneer of civility, behind the gleam of modernity, behind the hypocritical smiles of those preaching for tolerance and civility.

Throughout time, we’ve seen that the worst thing the world can unleash on the Church, on Christ’s flock, is what it eventually unleashes: its fury, its hatred, its savage hunger. It did this to Christ, pierced by nails and crowned with thorns, abandoned by friends, mocked by foes, and left to bleed in the dust. ….

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