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January 18, 2011
This Week’s Column at Patheos
This week's Patheos column is about John Hughes (1797-1864), who was New York's first Archbishop....
January 18, 2011
Millionaire Saint Enters Pittsburgh Convent, November 1889
MISS DREXEL ENTERS THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY.The New York Times, November 8,...
January 16, 2011
“What Better or More Blessed Investment”: Cathedral Preparatory Seminary, Elmhurst, New York
Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, Brooklyn On the morning of September 7, 1914, eighty-five young...
January 13, 2011
“The School of the Lord’s Service”: St. Benedict, His Monks, and Western Civilization
An Oxford graduate and Catholic convert whose writings influenced Tolkien and T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson...
January 12, 2011
St. John’s College, Brooklyn, 1914
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGEBrooklyn, New York City, N. Y.In the year 1865, Right Rev. John Loughlin,...
January 11, 2011
Check out Pat’s Weekly Column at Patheos!
Dear Friends, As you may know, in addition to the blog, I also write a...
January 11, 2011
Jesuit’s Funeral Draws Thousands in Manhattan, January 1909
THOUSANDS MOURN FOR FATHER PARDOWWomen and Children Weep During Funeral Services for the Noted Jesuit...
January 10, 2011
Quote of the Day
I think I am right in saying that the tradition of the Apostles, committed to...
January 09, 2011
Sermon at a Children’s Mass, 1900
FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY Gospel. Luke ii. 42-52 THE FINDING IN THE TEMPLE This day’s...
January 09, 2011
Catholic Poetry
FOR THE MAGI BY J. Patrick Walsh, S.J. In the end, not valor, ecstasy of...
January 07, 2011
The Setons, the Bayleys, and the Roosevelts
Archbishop Robert Seton was remembered as a fairly eccentric character who made a good deal...
January 05, 2011
Quote of the Day
History shows that the Catholic Church from the day that she was founded has constantly...
January 04, 2011
Roads to Rome: Bishop Levi Silliman Ives (1797-1867)
In 1852, Dr. Levi Silliman Ives, the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, traveled to Rome,...
January 03, 2011
“This Faithful and Devout Catholic Soldier”: Lieutenant Colonel Julius P. Garesché (1821-1862)
The Battle of Stones River, which took place on December 31, 1862, in Tennessee, was...
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December 31, 2010
“She Has Missed Her Vocation”: Mother Aloysia Hardey, R.S.C.J. (1809-1886)
In 1792, when the French revolutionary government repressed all religious orders in the country, it...
December 28, 2010
Bishop John Chanche and Catholicism in Mississippi, 1841-1852
After Pope Gregory XVI created the Diocese of Natchez* in 1837, it was four years...
December 27, 2010
“Really Franciscan”: St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Manhattan (1844)
Urban ministry has been part of the Franciscan tradition from the start, and St. Francis...
December 25, 2010
Christmas Sermon, St. Paul the Apostle, Manhattan, ca. 1886
CHRISTMAS JOYBehold, I bring you tidings of great joy. – Luke ii.10There is hardly any...
December 23, 2010
1841 Advertisement for Fordham
I found this ad in the pages of the Brooklyn Eagle, and I'm pretty sure...
December 15, 2010
Quote of the Day
“The Catholic Church… comes not to destroy the natural, but to fulfill—to purify, elevate, direct,...
December 15, 2010
Apologies for a Lengthy Absence– And Good News!
Dear Friends,I hope you will forgive my lengthy absence from the blog, but let me...
November 2010
November 24, 2010
Roads to Rome: Alice Morton Rutherfurd (1879-1917)
Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Alice Morton Rutherfurd was the daughter of Levi P. Morton,...
November 23, 2010
The Bishop Who Ran the Blockade: Patrick N. Lynch and the Confederacy
During the Civil War, congregations North and South often sided with their respective governments. This...
November 22, 2010
The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (1875)
For Poles, the nineteenth century is known as the “century of sadness,” when a once-great...
November 21, 2010
Catholic Poetry
THE ANSWERED “AVE”By J.W.S. NorrisThe dear Saint Bernard ere eve’s shadows fellThroughout the cloister’s fair...
November 21, 2010
Sunday Sermons, 1878
Twenty-Fourth or Last Sunday After PentecostEPISTLE. Col. i. 9-14.GOSPEL. St. Matt. xxiv. 15-35.Behold I have...
November 20, 2010
Quote of the Day
“The Church needs both the men who act and the men who think; and since...
November 19, 2010
A Monastery in the Bronx: Corpus Christi (1889)
Contemplative nuns form one of the Dominican order’s oldest branches. Their prayer apostolate is meant...
November 18, 2010
Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown (1789)
HOLY TRINITY, WASHINGTON D.C.---This parish is one of the oldest in the archdiocese. The first...
November 17, 2010
Quote of the Day
This is one of the very queerest of the common delusions about what happens to...
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