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 “The important thing is to do charity, not to talk about charity. We must understand the work with very poor people as a God’s chosen mission.” — Saint Irma Dulce Lopes Pontes

“I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!” Jesus told the disciples (Luke 12:49).

How in the world could a group of women, ranging in age from nine to ninety-three at their deaths, women formally canonized by the Catholic Church for heroic virtues and associated miracles, be considered radical? Because being a Christian is radical. The word radical comes from the Latin radicalis, meaning “of or relating to a root.” When Christ and his teachings are our foundation, we are on a radical path, a path people have struggled to walk for more than two thousand years.