Titus Brandsma is a saint for the fake news era, says Irish Carmelites provincial

Newly canonised St Titus Brandsma “stood up for the truth” and can be a saint to combat the era of fake news, said the provincial of the Carmelites in Ireland. St Brandsma was a Dutch Carmelite priest, professor and journalist who opposed Nazi propaganda in Catholic newspapers. He was arrested for distributing letters forbidding Catholic…