Blessed Anna Kolesárová - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:13:49 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Blessed Anna Kolesárová - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Making saints out of rape victims criticised https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/09/20/beatification-rape-victims/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:51:14 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=112017 Making saints out of rape victims has been criticised by a senior editor of a Catholic magazine. Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, an editor at large and columnist for the US-based Commonweal magazine, was sepcifically referring to the recent beatification of Anna Kolesárová. Kolesárová was a sixteen-year old Slovak girl who was murdered in front of her Read more

Making saints out of rape victims criticised... Read more]]> Making saints out of rape victims has been criticised by a senior editor of a Catholic magazine.

Mollie Wilson O'Reilly, an editor at large and columnist for the US-based Commonweal magazine, was sepcifically referring to the recent beatification of Anna Kolesárová.

Kolesárová was a sixteen-year old Slovak girl who was murdered in front of her family by a Soviet soldier in 1944.

"When I read the news about the sixteen-year-old murder victim who was beatified as a ‘martyr to purity,' I had to check the date on the paper," O'Reilly says. Read more

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