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The Catholic Church wasn’t built by the cautious. It was built by mystics who argued with emperors, missionaries who crossed oceans with nothing but faith, martyrs who refused the easy way out, and saints who managed to be both completely human and completely on fire for God. Holy Troublemakers tells their stories. Each episode, host Dom Bettinelli takes you inside the life of one of the men or women who shaped two thousand years of Catholic history — not as plaster statues, but as real human beings who struggled, failed, doubted, and ultimately chose something greater than themselves. From Saint Peter on the shores of Galilee to Dorothy Day on the streets of New York, these are the people who made a holy mess of the world, and left it better for it.
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She nearly drowned at 7 and feared the sea all her life, then crossed it more than 20 times. Dom Bettinelli tells how Mother Cabrini turned 2 convents' rejections and an archbishop's "go home" into 67 institutions for immigrants.
The post Mother Cabrini: The Woman Who Was Afraid Of The Water And Crossed It Anyway appeared first on StarQuest Media.
He walked 250 miles rather than ride a horse, and begged mercy for his friend's killers. He also signed off on whippings. Dom Bettinelli doesn't let either half of Junípero Serra's record disappear.
The post St. Junípero Serra: Always Forward, Never Back appeared first on StarQuest Media.
Stranded on a becalmed orange boat off Sicily, a sick Anglican clergyman wrote six lines that would outlive his career. Dom traces John Henry Newman's path from Oxford star to disgraced convert to Doctor of the Church.
The post St. John Henry Newman: One Step Enough for Me appeared first on StarQuest Media.
Locked in a freezing Italian quarantine house with a dying husband, a young widow named Elizabeth started asking questions about the Eucharist. Dom Bettinelli traces her path from teenage despair to America's first native-born saint.
The post St. Elizabeth Ann Seton appeared first on StarQuest Media.
A cannonball ended his career at 30. Stuck in bed with a ruined leg, Iñigo López de Loyola noticed which daydreams left him empty and which left him happy. Dom Bettinelli traces how that one habit of attention built the Jesuits.
The post St. Ignatius of Loyola: The Cannonball Saint appeared first on StarQuest Media.
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