“It’s always very moving when a Jesuit is martyred,” said Jesuit Father James Martin, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage and editor-at-large for America
magazine. “Even if I don’t know him, he’s my brother. And it’s a
reminder of the high level of service that all of us are called to as
Christians.” Father Martin said he believed Father van der Lugt fulfilled what
Blessed John Paul II called a “martyr of charity.” John Paul II declared
St. Maximilian Kolbe this kind of martyr for sacrificing his life to
save another prisoner in a Nazi death camp, as the systemic barbarity of
the Nazis was a form of hatred of the faith.
Link (here) to the National Catholic Register
I'm wondering if Fr Martin MEANT to say, it's always moving when ANY CHRISTIAN is martyred...because that's exactly what is going on all around the world right now.
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