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The Whisky Priest and Jairus’ Daughters, by Kevin Wells – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

The Whisky Priest and Jairus’ Daughters, by Kevin Wells

Be Prepared for Another ‘Long Hot Summer’, by Phil Lawler

May 16, 2024

BREAKING: Elderly Pro-Lifer Jean Marshall Sentenced to 24 Months, Denied Home Confinement Despite Health Issues, by Calvin Freiburger

May 16, 2024

Crisis Magazine, Kevin Wells.

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, May 16, 2024

Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, Catholic speaker, and author of Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press). His best-selling book The Priests We Need to Save the Church was published by Sophia Institute Press in 2019.

How to help: World Villages for Children (WVC) is a nonprofit organization that financially supports the Sisters of Mary as they help children break free from a life of poverty and lead them to Christ. WVC provides food, shelter, clothing, medical expenses, Catholic education, and vocational training to more than 20,000 children in Boystowns and Girlstowns in six different countries around the world. To donate to World Villages for Children, please go to https://www.worldvillages.org/poverty/.

Like Graham Greene’s fugitive priest stumbling from place to place through the night to calm the frightened in the faith-starved homes of Tabasco, Bishop Strickland now moves on the peripheries.

Before the start of Mass in a Mexican town last week, a wounded American bishop looked into a sea of teenage girls who had, he’d been told, been hurt in inhumane ways. Three thousand or so girls stood before him at Villa de Las Niñas in blue skirts, white blouses, bobby socks, and black saddle shoes. These were Mexico’s bullied ones from Guerrero, Oaxaca, Durango, Veracruz, Puebla, Jalisco, and numberless other poor villages.

In the silence of the mammoth gymnasium, the wounded looked into the eyes of the wounded. Sorrow wrung the bishop’s heart. A few sisters had told him stories of their spiritual daughters’ afflictions, so his eyes moistened as he blessed himself to begin the Sacrifice of the Mass. The abandoned girls were raised in villages bathed in human trafficking, murder, addiction, and violence. …

The Whisky Priest and Jairus’ Daughters, by Kevin Wells

Be Prepared for Another ‘Long Hot Summer’, by Phil Lawler

BREAKING: Elderly Pro-Lifer Jean Marshall Sentenced to 24 Months, Denied Home Confinement Despite Health Issues, by Calvin Freiburger

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine, May 16, 2024

Like Graham Greene’s fugitive priest stumbling from place to place through the night to calm the frightened in the faith-starved homes of Tabasco, Bishop Strickland now moves on the peripheries.

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