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October 2012

October 15, 2012
Catholic Literature in the United States-- Address of the Rev. Dr. Pise (The Brooklyn Eagle,...
October 12, 2012
The work of the Institute began in Baltimore, the first house being opened in 1890....
October 08, 2012
“The necessity of hearing the Word of God in their own tongue, and of having...
October 02, 2012
KAISER’S  GIFT TO VIRGINIA NUNS Special to the New York Times The New York Times,...
October 01, 2012
MAYOR IN MONASTERY: Was Saloon Owner and Politics Led Him to Shun the World The...

September 2012

September 29, 2012
The Starry Host By John Lancaster Spalding THE COUNTLESS stars, which to our human eye...
September 01, 2012
A SOUTHERN FLOWER A flower of the pale, sad South, Yet pale nor sad is...

August 2012

August 11, 2012
Dear Friends, Unfortunately I will not be posting any blog pieces for the next two weeks...
August 04, 2012
THE TRANSFIGURATION And they lifting up their eyes saw no one but only Jesus (St....
August 03, 2012
I thank God that I can say, "It was a true report that I heard...
August 01, 2012
Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Commonly Called "The Mission Church" Under the charge...

July 2012

July 31, 2012
Born in France, Father Louis Hippolyte-Gache, S.J. (1817-1907), was a Chaplain in the Confederate Army...
July 30, 2012
On the death of Father Lilly St Joseph's Province of the Dominican Order lost one of...
July 29, 2012
Sermon on the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Church of Our Lady of Immaculate...
July 28, 2012
As the 2012 Olympics gets underway, it seems appropriate to focus on one of the...
July 27, 2012
The Discalced Carmelite Nuns (O.C.D.) were the first community of women religious founded in the...
July 24, 2012
Several of the premier Jesuit college presidents in 19th century America were Italian. Father Joseph Cataldo...
July 23, 2012
Born to a distinguished New England family, Eliza Allen Starr grew up "in an atmosphere...
July 22, 2012
TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST.  "CHRIST THE ONLY ENDURING NAME IN HISTORY AND THE GREAT REFORMER...
July 21, 2012
I AM THE WAY By Rev. Alfred Young, C.S.P. "Thou hast laid thy body as...
July 20, 2012
The Christian Brothers' College in Memphis, Tennessee, is conducted by the Brothers of the Christian...
July 18, 2012
On October 31st in the year 1848, Father Oliver L. Jenkins, Deacon Edward Caton, and...
July 17, 2012
Mother M. DeChantal Keating, for thirty-four years head of St. John’s Home for Boys, Albany...
July 16, 2012
Church Festival in the Heat (The Brooklyn Eagle, July 17, 1900, p. 7) It is...
July 15, 2012
SERMON CXLII. As lightning cometh out of the- east, and appeareth even unto the west...
July 14, 2012
Catherine Tekakwitha By Eliza Allen Starr The sweet-briar rose of summer glades We lay upon...
July 13, 2012
Katzer, Frederick Xavier, third Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese ofGreen Bayand first Archbishop of...
July 10, 2012
In every age and clime the Catholic Church has been a pioneer in carrying the...
July 09, 2012
By the death of Mother M. Gertrude Doyle, which occurred Saturday, March 22, 1913, the...
July 08, 2012
ON A PORTRAIT OF ST. ALOYSIUS GONZAGA By D.J. Mackin, Ph.D. "Quid hac ad aeternitatem?"...
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