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March 2011

March 02, 2011
To kick off Women's History Month, this week's Patheos column features the unique story of...

February 2011

February 27, 2011
FATHER DANIEL WEBSTER MURPHY.The interests of the Catholic Church in Hollywood are zealously guarded by...
February 25, 2011
Descended from a long line of Spanish-Californian ancestry, Judge Ygnacio Sepulveda, recently returned to the...
February 24, 2011
Last week, I had the pleasure of appearing at Theology on Tap, a program for...
February 23, 2011
IN THE FLUSHING CONVENT.Bishop McDonnell Officiates at the Ceremony and Gives Her the Religious Name...
February 22, 2011
As a whole, the Catholic Church was slow to get fully involved in the Civil...
February 21, 2011
DENIS J. STAFFORDSTAFFORD, DENIS, J., D.D., Roman Catholic priest, Shakespearean scholar and lecturer, was born...
February 20, 2011
HOW WISDOM MAY BE FOUND.Sermon by the Rev. Augustine P. Hewit, C. S.P.Before the Boston...
February 16, 2011
 A COLORED TERTIARY.The Franciscan Herald, May 1917.“Behold an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no...
February 15, 2011
This week's Patheos column looks at the history of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, Kentucky,...
February 13, 2011
Laying the Corner Stone of a Catholic Church.The Brooklyn Eagle, July 18, 1853Yesterday afternoon the...
February 12, 2011
Back in England in 1859, Blessed John Henry Newman was having a conversation with Birmingham...
February 11, 2011
 St. Ann's Academy was founded on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1892. During its early...
February 10, 2011
Here’s an answer from The Brooklyn Eagle, October 18, 1890: In each parish there is...
February 09, 2011
Patrick Augustine Feehan (1829-1902) was the first Archbishop of Chicago. Born in Ireland, he was...
February 08, 2011
As the Civil War approached, 1850’s Kansas was center-stage for the brewing conflict. Pro-slavery and...
February 04, 2011
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER COLLEGEThe Brooklyn Eagle, September 4, 1898The College of St. Francis Xavier, on...
February 02, 2011
By any standard, the Healys were an impressive family. Michael, the father, was an Irish...
February 02, 2011
BROOKLYN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.Their History from 1828 to 1873-- The Pioneer School of the City, and...
February 01, 2011
HOLY NAME SCHOOL.An Entertainment Given by its Pupils Thursday Evening.The Brooklyn Eagle, June 22, 1889In...

January 2011

January 28, 2011
The parish facilities as they appeared around the year 1870.St. John the Baptist, Brooklyn. During Bishop...
January 27, 2011
Dear Friends, Catholic blogger Eric Sammons has researched the Top Two Hundred Catholic Blogs and...
January 27, 2011
Father John Moore, C.M, was President of St. John's University, Brooklyn, from 1906 to 1925....
January 26, 2011
 St. John's University during the 1940's, when it stood in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section. During the...
January 25, 2011
 St. Vincent De Paul (1576-1660) Today the two largest Catholic universities in the United States...
January 25, 2011
Father Theophilus Riesinger, O.F.M. Cap. (1868-1941), the priest who is the subject of this week's...
January 24, 2011
THE NEW CATHOLIC COLLEGE.The Brooklyn Eagle, February 24, 1868For a long time the energetic Catholic...
January 24, 2011
THE APPEAL OF THE DEAF MUTE.Paper by THE REV. F. A. MOELLER, S. J., Chaplain,...
January 21, 2011
THE FATE OF ST. AGNES Rev. L.A. Grace’s Sermon in St. Agnes’ ChurchThe Brooklyn Eagle,...
January 20, 2011
ST. SEBASTIAN’S, WOODSIDE.FATHER GANNON’S NEW CHURCH RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETION.The Brooklyn Eagle, February 16, 1896St. Sebastian’s,...
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