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December 2018

December 18, 2018
The Paulist Fathers were founded by Servant of God Isaac Hecker in 1858 as the...
December 14, 2018
It's hard to imagine just how profoundly different Catholics in 1800's America felt from their...
December 13, 2018
At so many Catholic colleges, we pass by buildings named for people associated with the...
December 12, 2018
Gary Cooper wasn't raised Catholic, but his wife Veronica and daughter Maria were devout Catholics....
December 11, 2018
Not long before his death, General William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) told an interviewer: "My family...
December 10, 2018
In 1948, the book world's surprise hit was The Seven Storey Mountain, the autobiography of...
December 09, 2018
He was one of Golden Age Hollywood’s most prolific figures, its premier action director. Over...
December 08, 2018
Right Rev. George W. Mundelein, "New Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception," The Brooklyn Eagle, September 7,...
December 07, 2018
When I was growing up in Queens, I had a number of friends whose Irish-born...
December 05, 2018
Patrick C. Keely Receives Laetare Medal, March 30, 1884, The Catholic Review, April 5, 1884 The...
December 04, 2018
In the summer of 1854, a young Irish priest named Hugh Gallagher traveled back to...
December 03, 2018
Friends, this morning marks the Feast of St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552), the Jesuit missionary who...
December 02, 2018
Introduction Born in France and raised in England, Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the...
December 01, 2018
Church History can often surprise you. Just when you think the Church is on her...

November 2018

November 30, 2018
At the moment there are nearly forty American men and women who have begun the...
November 29, 2018
Friends, today marks the 38th anniversary of Servant of God Dorothy Day's passing. In 1933,...
November 28, 2018
Introduction: The Sacred Heart Review was published out of Massachusetts between 1888 and 1918, covering Catholic...
November 27, 2018
From the Pulpit: Bishop John Loughlin, St. James Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn, New York, July 13, 1884....
November 26, 2018
Between 1873 and 1879, nearly eight thousand people died during Memphis’s Yellow Fever epidemics. While...
November 25, 2018
Introduction Founded in Medieval France, the white-robed Carthusian monks are named for the Chartreuse Valley...
November 24, 2018
Since 1883, the University of Notre Dame has bestowed its Laetare Medal on an outstanding...
November 23, 2018
The parish mission, which traces it roots to 1500’s Europe, was the Catholic counterpart to...
November 22, 2018
The city of Turin in northwest Italy is famous for several reasons. During the 1860’s,...
November 21, 2018
As it begins to look a lot like Christmas, books can be the perfect gift....
November 20, 2018
Friends, here is a video I created some time ago, which relates to Black Catholic...
November 19, 2018
November is Black Catholic History Month, a good time to commemorate the Father of Black...
November 06, 2014
Born in New York City to a French mother and a Cuban father, Pedro de...
November 05, 2014
The Rail Splitter was one of several anti-Catholic publications that gained a wide circulation in...
November 04, 2014
As Americans go to the polls today, we profile the first Catholic to represent New...
November 02, 2014
BELIEVE AND TAKE HEART By John Lancaster Spalding What can console for a dead world?...
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