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October 2010

October 26, 2010
Born to immigrant parents from County Cork, Jeremiah Francis Shanahan grew up in Pennsylvania. There...
October 25, 2010
St. Charles Borromeo parish, Brooklyn, N.Y., was founded in 1849 by Father Charles Constantine Pise...
October 25, 2010
The unidentified sister in the above photograph is a member of a community whose roots...
October 24, 2010
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISIUM Saint Francis, favorite of the Infant Jesus, Weeping in Bethlehem hot...
October 24, 2010
SERMON ON CHRISTIAN HOPEPreached at Catholic Summer School by Father KennedyAt the Catholic Summer School,...
October 23, 2010
Seen above is the cover of a 1949 programme for Yale versus Holy Cross College....
October 23, 2010
Seen above is Father Eugene H. Porcile, S.P.M. (1839-1912), a French-born member of the Fathers...
October 22, 2010
Thomas Merton made Gethsemani Abbey almost a byword in American Catholic life, but this Trappist...
October 21, 2010
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY, 1902.— By the end of February, 1902,...
October 20, 2010
Born in Maine, Clarence Eugene Woodman graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and Amherst before studying...
October 19, 2010
Born in Ireland, Edward Mary Fitzgerald came to America as a teenager. At seventeen he...
October 18, 2010
Maria Lowe was born in Brooklyn, but grew up in an orphanage in Cincinnati. At...
October 17, 2010
“Thousands at a Mission: The Work Which Paulist Fathers Have Been Doing In BrooklynInteresting Services...
October 17, 2010
THE SACRED HEART Adelaide A. Procter (1825-1864)What wouldst thou have, O soul,Thou weary soul?Lo! I...
October 17, 2010
When speaking of the Catholic Church’s Eastern Rites, the late Pope John Paul II often...
October 16, 2010
Joseph John Conlon was born in 1863 in New Haven, Connecticut, where he received his...
October 15, 2010
October 15, 2010
The first Catholic Church built in the State of New Jersey was St. John’s, Trenton,...
October 14, 2010
Born in Missouri, Robert Emmet Vincent Rice grew up on a farm near the Vincentian...
October 13, 2010
Lucy Eaton Smith was born to an affluent Manhattan family in 1845, raised Episcopalian, and...
October 13, 2010
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) wrote more encyclicals than any other pontiff (including Pope John Paul...
October 12, 2010
St. Thomas The Apostle, Woodhaven, N.Y. — On April 1, 1908 property was bought for...
October 12, 2010
Today marks the birth of Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of Civil War General William...
October 11, 2010
Over at America magazine, Father Jim Martin reminds us that today is the Feast of...
October 11, 2010
"The form of government in the United States is preferable to Catholics above other forms....
October 11, 2010
From its humble beginnings in a New England church rectory in early 1882, the Knights...
October 11, 2010
The above photo shows students from St. Leonard’s School in Boston’s North End in 1914....
October 11, 2010
While John Henry Newman was still an Anglican, he said of Catholic missionaries: “If they...
October 10, 2010
CONSOLATION"It is I; be not afraid." WHEN I sink down in gloom or fear,Hope blighted...
October 09, 2010
If history teaches us nothing else, it shows that we've been there before. As Thursday's...
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