• Letters

    Second Letter To Catholic Pastors of Minnesota

    Reverend Father, In The Cure D’Ars by Abbe Francois Trochu, a biography of St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney based on official records from the process of his beatification, there is a passage: Vianney exclaimed through the crowd, “He is saved!” The woman was incredulous so the saint repeated, stressing each word, “I tell you he is saved. He is in Purgatory, and you must pray for him. Between the parapet of the bridge and the water he had time to make an act of contrition.” If the four words “They have no wine” spoken by the Blessed Virgin Mary were sufficient to move…