Listen Intro: St. Francis Xavier, born in 1506 in the Kingdom of Navarre, stands as a pivotal figure in the history of Christian missionary work. A co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), Xavier dedicated his life to the spread of ...
Listen Among all the nations of antiquity, there prevailed to a greater or lesser extent the horrid custom of exposing newborn children, or putting to death not only the newborn but even older children. Sometimes they were strangled, immolated, drowned, ...
Listen Childhood is said to be the happiest period in life. So it should be. Every child has the right to be born happy. The sunshine of love is as necessary to the development of the child’s nature as the ...
Listen In his essay “The Evolution of Childhood,” Lloyd DeMause reports: Infanticide during antiquity has usually been played down despite literally hundreds of clear references by ancient writers that it was an accepted, everyday occurrence. Children were thrown into rivers, ...
