On Saturday the Catholic Church in England celebrated the memorial of the Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God, the Passionist beatus better known as Dominic Barberi, whose major claim to fame is that he received the Blessed John Henry Newman into the Church. He is not yet a saint, which means that his cult is only celebrated in this country where he spent a significant part of his pastoral labours; but even in England he remains too little known. Wikipedia has a good article on him, and the Archdiocese of Birmingham also has this useful biographical sketch of him. Every saint has something to teach us, and Blessed Dominic is no exception. Newman had this to say about him:
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If we want converts, we must be as uncompromising as Blessed Dominic Barberi
Like Blessed Dominic, we have to tell it like it is, without cowardice and without apology
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