The Place Persecution Cannot Reach In today’s homily, Fr. Tyler reflects on a truth revealed by the Vietnamese Martyrs—117 canonized, more than 300,000 known to God alone—who witnessed with their blood that no earthly power can touch the deepest sanctuary of the human person: the heart. Persecution may imprison the body, silence the voice, or press upon the mind, but it cannot force the interior surrender of one’s freedom. As the Catechism teaches, the heart is “the seat of moral decision,” the place where we choose for or against God.

She taught children of lepers. She opened hospitals. She was responsible for countless people coming to an appreciation of the faith and an appreciation of themselves in God's eyes. Watch as Fr. Dan Cambra, MIC, introduces us to St. Marianne Cope.

Who was Blessed Jacoba de Settesoli?  Beside St. Francis of Assisi at his death, this little-known saint proved that it does not take extraordinary actions to lead a spiritually extraordinary life. Listen in the Fr. Dan Cambra, MIC.