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May 2011

May 16, 2011
TO PURIFY POLITICS. That is the Sole Aim and Object of the A.P.A.State President Huddleston...
May 15, 2011
ST. BRIDGET’S DEDICATED. Lexington Catholics Proud of Their Church.Impressive Ceremonies and Notable Music in New...
May 14, 2011
John Joseph Glennon John Joseph Glennon, archbishop of the St. Louis diocese and one of...
May 12, 2011
CATHOLICS IN THE ARMY AND THE NAVY. MAJOR MICHAEL O'CONNOR. It seems difficult to realize...
May 11, 2011
FATHER ALOYSIUS WIEWER. O. F. M. Priest Hero of the Yellow Fever. During the fever...
May 10, 2011
 Why is Manhattan College in the Bronx?By Pat McNamaraA religious Brother’s vocation is unique. Free...
May 09, 2011
Madame Victorine Boucher (1812-1883)St. Joseph's Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, Fordham. Incorporated...
May 08, 2011
IN ROMEBy Father Abram J. Ryan At last, the dream of youth Stands fair and...
May 07, 2011
Mother Katherine A. DietzDaughters of the Eucharist (1909) With the approval of His Eminence, James...
May 06, 2011
St. Augustine Church, Morrisania, as seen in the year 1878. CHURCH OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. ONE...
May 05, 2011
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL,WASHINGTON, D. C.Author of "The House of Egremont," "The Fortunes of Fifi," etc.In...
May 04, 2011
George William Mundelein, third Archbishop of Chicago, was born on July 2, 1872, son of...
May 03, 2011
This week's Patheos column focuses on a Native American Catholic catechist, Nicholas Black Elk, who...
May 02, 2011
On the evening of July 7, 1942, Thomas Francis Meehan passed away at his home...
May 01, 2011
Recollection Whitney Eckert, ‘03The Fordham Monthly (May 1904)How often in the blessed month of May,...

April 2011

April 30, 2011
 FRANCISCANS.Their Work in Brooklyn as Educators of Youth. The Schools Established by Them and the...
April 29, 2011
THE MARONITE MISSIONIN recent years many people of the Arabic races have taken up their...
April 28, 2011
MOUNT ST. SCHOLASTICA CONVENT, ATCHISON, KAN. Mount St. Scholastica’s is the older of the two...
April 27, 2011
This week, I did a guest column for Frank Weathers' great blog YIM Catholic, on...
April 27, 2011
RIGHT REV. THOMAS E. MOLLOY, Bishop of Brooklyn, when thirty-six years of age, was consecrated...
April 26, 2011
This week's Patheos column features an 1876 Easter sermon at St. Paul the Apostle Church,...
April 25, 2011
Edward A. Scott was born in Ireland and came to America at age fourteen. He...
April 24, 2011
Drawing by Pat McNamara, 1992To Pius X at Easter John Hazard Wildman (1911-1992) Pius, the...
April 23, 2011
“Is not your Church the only Church that does not demand moral character as a...
April 22, 2011
THE TWELFTH STATION Jesus dies upon the Cross V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi....
April 22, 2011
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES. DEVOUT WORSHIPPERS VISIT REPOSITORIES IN CHURCHES.Commemoration of the Day of the Crucifixion...
April 21, 2011
 BLESSED SACRAMENT, Brooklyn, N.Y. — To relieve the overcrowding of St. Malachy's due to the...
April 20, 2011
This 1912 photograph was taken in front of St. Patrick's rectory, Huntington, during the 25th...
April 19, 2011
Father James Kent Stone, C.P., in his Passionist habit, as seen in the early 1880's....
April 18, 2011
Confessions of Women. A dangerous rock which the priest encounters in the stormy sea of...
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