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December 2009

December 04, 2009
On this day in 1563, the Council of Trent ended after eighteen years. Considered to...
December 04, 2009
On this day in 1982, Pope John Paul II established the Apostolic Exarchate for Romanian...
December 04, 2009
Born to a poor family in Verona, he served in the military before completing his...
December 04, 2009
A bright child, Armand-Jean du Plessis studied theology as a teen and at the young...
December 04, 2009
Novelist, born at Ellsworth, Maine, 18 July, 1833; died at Boston, Massachusetts, 4 December, 1907....
December 04, 2009
Mary Frances Clarke was the foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin...
December 03, 2009
December 03, 2009
What we are in fact celebrating is the awe-inspiring humility of God, and no amount...
December 03, 2009
December 03, 2009
On this day in 1880, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Sancta Dei Civitas, on...
December 03, 2009
Today marks the founding of the Byzantine Eparchy of Van Nuys, California, in 1981. The...
December 03, 2009
There’s never been a newspaper quite like The American Catholic Tribune, an independent Catholic newspaper...
December 03, 2009
Born in Philadelphia, Francis Xavier Talbot (seen above on the right) joined the Jesuits after...
December 03, 2009
Considered by many to be the greatest missionary since Saint Paul, Francis Xavier was born...
December 02, 2009
December 02, 2009
You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother; you cannot in common life approach...
December 02, 2009
December 02, 2009
Ivan Illlich was born in Vienna into a family with Jewish, Dalmatian and Catholic roots....
December 01, 2009
Born in Massachusetts, Francis Joseph Spellman graduated from Fordham in 1911 and studied at the...
December 01, 2009
Once again showing the Church’s universality, a Christmas Carol in Arabic:
December 01, 2009
Hear, O Thou Shepherd of Israel,Who dost above the Cherubs dwell,Appear within Thine ancient home.Stir...
December 01, 2009
Seen here are a group of Jesuits from the University of Santa Clara in the...
December 01, 2009
Can anyone identify what religious community this Sister belongs to?
December 01, 2009
Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a member of the Holy Family Sisters in Bafwabaka, Belgian Congo,...
December 01, 2009
Born in Strasbourg, Charles Eugène de Foucauld grew up in an aristocratic family and entered...
December 01, 2009
Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain was, together with her husband Albert VII, Archduke of...
December 01, 2009
Quod Iam Diu was an encyclical of Pope Benedict XV, given at Rome at St....

November 2009

November 30, 2009
November 30, 2009
Bright Builder of the heavenly poles,Eternal Light of faithful souls,Jesus, Redeemer of mankind,Our humble prayers...
November 30, 2009
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