Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
There were more Christian martyrs in the 20th century than in all of the previous 19 centuries combined. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and many of their lesser-known totalitarian colleagues put millions of Christians to death for their faith in that terrible hundred-year period.
We’ve witnessed the stripping of the altars on Holy Thursday and felt the emptiness of the sanctuaries as the Blessed Sacrament was removed from tabernacles in perhaps the starkest moment of our liturgies.