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February 2019

February 01, 2019
Although November is officially Black Catholic History Month, I didn’t return to Patheos until its...

January 2019

January 31, 2019
Do you want to do a good deed? Teach the young! Do you want to...
January 30, 2019
This new column in McNamara’s Blog profiles historians and archivists who make American Catholic history...
January 29, 2019
The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., once called anti-Catholicism America’s most persistent prejudice. For much of...
January 26, 2019
“It is not enough that you love them; they must know that you love them.”--- St....
January 25, 2019
Pain can be healed. Hate can be turned to love. Division can be turned to unity. The Church...
January 24, 2019
Among institutes of higher education, Notre Dame has a storied place in American Catholic culture...
January 24, 2019
In the Fall of 1869, in the Bronx’s then-rural Fordham section, a girls’ academy opened...
January 22, 2019
He has a college, a high school, and a retreat house named named for him:...
January 21, 2019
“All through my life, I’ve tried to keep in mind that our purpose is to...
January 11, 2019
During the Industrial Revolution, Manchester became England’s leading manufacturing center. In 1844, Friedrich Engels, co-author...
January 08, 2019
He was known as “Hollywood’s one-man U.N.” for the various characters he played: Italians, Native...
January 07, 2019
Let me make a confession: I have no head for philosophy or theology. It’s too...
January 06, 2019
The Columbiettes are an organization of Catholic women connected to the Knights of Columbus. They...
January 05, 2019
Silas S. Henderson, Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, S.J., With an Unidivided Heart (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius...
January 04, 2019
The Church is never short of saints, and I always enjoy learning about new ones....
January 03, 2019
Since the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus is celebrated as an optional memorial...
January 02, 2019
This day in 1889 marks the birth of the National Black Catholic Congress. On January...
January 01, 2019
Friends, as we begin a new year, here are some anniversary dates to keep in...

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...
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