by Josef Candelario   If there is one thing I’ll never forget about Kosovo, it’s Orahovac. There was a time when Muslim Albanians and Serbian Christians lived there together in peace. There was a time when three thousand Serbs called Orahovac home. And then came the war, the Unrest of 2004, and the systematic persecution of Christians in Kosovo. The shrinking population of Serbs who refused to leave their homeland gathered together around the village church on the hill for protection, on the one remaining street which has become a Serbian ghetto.    We were there to visit one of these families, friends of Nikola and Ivan. To say that…

An Examination of Aztec Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism By John Valadez Note: This article was written to examine the similarities between Aztec Cannibalism and the Eucharist. However, it was not written for the intention of equating the Holy Body of Jesus Christ to the rituals of the Aztecs by these similarities, but rather an investigation of how the Aztecs might have come to know the Divine Mystery through a ritual that was central to their life and culture. Just as the Orthodox missionaries in Alaska investigated the pagan rituals of the natives in order to bring them to Christ and His Church, so this article attempts to do the same. Introduction In…