In Praise of Holy Women
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Elizabeth Ann Seton was twenty-years old when the Blessed Carmelite Martyrs of Compiègne were executed during the French Revolution. A century and a half later Francois Poulenc would tell the world their story in his sublime opera, Dialogues des Carmelites.
Caring for the Poor: Frank Capra and Elizabeth Seton
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The mid-twentieth century immigrant film director and the early-nineteenth century saint born into Manhattan’s elite shared a deep concern for society’s poor and outcasts that was grounded in their Catholic faith.
Georges Bernanos, Elizabeth Seton, and the Revelation of Hell
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The French Catholic writer and the American saint each knew that God’s light shines brightest in the deepest darkness.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Elizabeth Seton and Their Devotion to Mary
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There could hardly be two women who lived in such different cultures as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, yet Mary spoke to each of them.
The Vocation of Women According to Elizabeth Seton and Sigrid Undset
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Elizabeth Seton and Sigrid Undset were feminist icons without officially becoming feminists because they drew their strength from their Catholicism.
Reimagining Robert Lowell
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The saint Elizabeth Seton and the poet Robert Lowell took divergent paths through the storm clouds of their lives, each seeking shelter under God’s immense umbrella of grace.
Gravitas: Good Friday, 2022
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In a remarkable act of trust, Elizabeth Seton referred to the death dates of her daughters as their “Heavenly birthdays”—the day when they were born into eternal life after the long, hard labor of dying.
The Eucharist at the Core: Flannery O’Connor and Elizabeth Ann Seton
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The Catholic writer and the Catholic saint each grounded their lives and their works in the astonishing power of grace.
Companionship in Christ: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Fr. Luigi Giussani
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Luigi Giussani and Elizabeth Seton never planned to found religious movements. Their mission was to love God and neighbor and proclaim that the Incarnate God lives now, in the Eucharist and in our encounters with the people we are given.