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December 2018

December 31, 2018
  Here are some of the anniversaries that we commemorated in McNamara’s Blog for 2018:...
December 30, 2018
  Today marks the passing in 1903 of a seminal figure in early Paulist history,...
December 29, 2018
On this day in three separate years, three significant figures in the early history of...
December 28, 2018
As we travel around the nations's Catholic college campuses this week, we come to Seton...
December 27, 2018
A major reason I got into American Catholic history was to better understand my own...
December 26, 2018
As readers might guess, I've long been interested in the intersection between Catholic history and...
December 25, 2018
On Christmas Day, I always enjoy watching movies with a spiritual theme, and one of...
December 22, 2018
Today marks the birth of a priest known as “the Apostle of the Alleghenies,” one...
December 21, 2018
Founded in 1870 in downtown Buffalo, Canisius College is one of twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and...
December 20, 2018
In 1800’s England, becoming Catholic was, writes historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, “a fate worse than death.”...
December 19, 2018
Michael Bloomberg wasn't the first New York Mayor to learn Spanish. That distinction belongs to...
December 18, 2018
The Paulist Fathers were founded by Servant of God Isaac Hecker in 1858 as the...
December 14, 2018
It's hard to imagine just how profoundly different Catholics in 1800's America felt from their...
December 13, 2018
At so many Catholic colleges, we pass by buildings named for people associated with the...
December 12, 2018
Gary Cooper wasn't raised Catholic, but his wife Veronica and daughter Maria were devout Catholics....
December 11, 2018
Not long before his death, General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) told an interviewer: "My family...
December 10, 2018
In 1948, the book world's surprise hit was The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography of...
December 09, 2018
He was one of Golden Age Hollywood’s most prolific figures, its premier action director. Over...
December 08, 2018
Right Rev. George W. Mundelein, "New Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception," The Brooklyn Eagle, September 7,...
December 07, 2018
When I was growing up in Queens, I had a number of friends whose Irish-born...
December 05, 2018
Patrick C. Keely Receives Laetare Medal, March 30, 1884, The Catholic Review, April 5, 1884 The...
December 04, 2018
In the summer of 1854, a young Irish priest named Hugh Gallagher traveled back to...
December 03, 2018
Friends, this morning marks the Feast of St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), the Jesuit missionary who...
December 02, 2018
Introduction Born in France and raised in England, Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the...
December 01, 2018
Church History can often surprise you. Just when you think the Church is on her...
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