Friday, February 28, 2014

Meanwhile ...

It is somewhat ironic that the loss of Prime from the Liturgy of the Hours—and thus the loss of a daily liturgical reading from the Roman Martyrology—coincided with the greatest century of persecution in the history of the Church. It’s a point well-established but little appreciated within American Catholicism: we have been living, and we’re living now, in the greatest era of persecution in Christian history. More Christians died for the faith in the 20th-century than in the previous 19 centuries of Christian history combined

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  1. More Christians have died of natural causes in the 20th Century than in quite few of the previous centuries combined; the world population is just greater. And when one considers the violence around the partition of India what are the numbers for Hindus and Moslems?

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