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December 2020

December 21, 2020
I grew up in the pre-internet age, so I still have a sense of awe...

June 2020

June 08, 2020
“Are We There Yet?” Over the past week, we’ve looked at some painful history. While...
June 07, 2020
Charity Not Enough  Today we focus on a brighter spot in American Catholic history: the...
June 06, 2020
"The Dignity of the Priesthood"  In a sermon on  “The True Priesthood,” delivered at Brooklyn’s...
June 05, 2020
A Hierarchy Divided  As we mentioned earlier, some mainline Protestant Churches formally divided over the...
June 04, 2020
American Sisters and Social Justice Many today are familiar with the photos of American women...
June 03, 2020
  American Catholics and Slavery Throughout the centuries leading up to Emancipation, many slaveholders were...
June 02, 2020
Race in American Life When you look at English history, most scholars would agree that...

May 2020

May 30, 2020
A Drawing in the Middle of the Night Last night, I had trouble sleeping, which...
May 26, 2020
John Wayne and the Catholics For me today is a big “OTD” moment. That’s because,...
May 22, 2020
The Best Father’s Day Present Last Father’s Day, I got a book I'd wanted for...
May 21, 2020
The Sherman Family and the Catholic Church For decades, the University of Notre Dame has...
May 20, 2020
What’s Catholic Poetry?  It’s poetry imbued with what the late Father Andrew Greeley called “the...
May 19, 2020
Brigadier General James Rowan O’Beirne (1839-1917)-- Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, New York.   One of the great things...
May 14, 2020
If you’ve never heard of the Liturgical Movement, you’re missing out on one of the...
May 13, 2020
Book sales are dear to my heart. Especially Catholic ones. I can spend hours going...
May 12, 2020
On a sunny Saturday morning in May 1976, I made my First Holy Communion at...

April 2020

April 09, 2020
Pascal once said that most of our problems as human beings stem from our inability...
April 01, 2020
As a human community, we’ve been going through a tough time, to say the least....

March 2020

March 27, 2020
Friends, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything for McNamara’s Blog, so bear with...
March 05, 2019
Pope Francis has just announced that on March 2, 2020, the Vatican Archives relating to...
March 03, 2019
An Irish Dominican, Thomas Nicholas Burke, O.P. (1830-1882), was one of the premier Catholic preachers...
March 02, 2019
In ten years of blogging Catholic history, I’ve written a fair amount about women religious....

February 2019

February 28, 2019
The late Father Andrew Greeley once called the Catholic Church’s current sex scandals the biggest...
February 24, 2019
Pope Francis has formally cleared the way for the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman...
February 20, 2019
Pope Francis raised more than a few eyebrows recently when he addressed the sexual exploitation...
February 19, 2019
CATHEDRAL COLLEGE HAS COMMENCEMENT. Catholic Preparatory Seminary Sends Forth its First Graduates. The Brooklyn Eagle, June 24,...
February 18, 2019
This past Friday, my home diocese of Brooklyn released the names of 108 men accused...
February 11, 2019
Today is the the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, which offers us the opportunity...
February 04, 2019
By any standard, the Healys were an impressive family. Michael, the father, was an Irish...
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