FROM REV. JOHN NAUGLE--WITH A SEGUE INTO ST. MAXIMILLIAN KOLBE: DAVID MORENS AND THE PROBLEM OF OBEDIENCE

Recently the Church celebrated the feast of St. Maximillan Kolbe, a conventual Franciscan who was held as a political prisoner at Auschwitz by the Nazis until he offered his own life in exchange for that of a husband and father.

For his feast, those who celebrated the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours read an excerpt from one of his letters. In this letter he treats the subject of obedience: MORE AT David Morens and the Problem of Obedience