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Priest-Journalist Who Gave His Life Fighting the Nazis Is a Model for Us All 

Raymond J. de Souza

National Post, May 15, 2022

… the empire of lies does not only advance by jackboots and blitzkrieg. Sometimes it slithers in softly and slowly, making it easier for those — priests and journalists both — who wish to compromise with it.”

News about priest journalists is not common. Our tribe is not large, but we do have a venerable history. The news of this moment is joyous — on Sunday in Rome one of our own will be declared a saint.

Titus Brandsma, the heroic Dutch resister to Nazism, will be canonized by Pope Francis, 80 years after his death by lethal injection in Dachau, where the “medical care” provided in the camp “infirmary” was about hastening death, not providing health.

It was a nurse who did the deed, coming to kill rather than to care. Yet even as she corrupted her professional mission, the witness of the Carmelite priest moved her to a deep conversion. Returning to the Catholic faith that she had abandoned to become part of the SS, she eventually found her way to a Carmelite monastery to seek forgiveness.

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