St. Jerome Proved that Even the Church Fathers Could Be Grumpy

Part Two of the Church Fathers series

“St. Jerome Writing” by Caravaggio, 1606 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

When we hear the word “saint,” most of us immediately picture some extremely holy figure of centuries past who lived a perfect life that we can’t even begin to match. After all, as Larry Darrell said in the film The Razor’s Edge, “it’s easy to be a holy man on the top of a mountain.” It’s harder…