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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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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.
He couldn't stand the sight of a leper. The smell made him physically sick. Then one afternoon he got down off his horse and kissed one, and that was the day Francis of Assisi became a saint. Dom Bettinelli tells the story without the birdbath.
The post St. Francis Of Assisi: The Man Who Kissed The Leper appeared first on StarQuest Media.
He walked out of Rome at 17 and hid in a cave for three years. Dom Bettinelli traces Benedict of Nursia from Subiaco to Monte Cassino, where he wrote 73 chapters that have outlived the empire, the Lombards, the Saracens, and Allied bombs.
The post St. Benedict of Nursia: The Man Who Built the West appeared first on StarQuest Media.
A married fisherman walks off his boat, denies his Lord three times, and dies upside-down in Rome. Dom Bettinelli traces Simon Peter from the Sea of Galilee to the bones beneath St. Peter's high altar. The saint who broke and was put back together.
The post St. Peter: The Rock Who Cracked and Held appeared first on StarQuest Media.
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