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November 2009

November 12, 2009
Today marks the death of James Michael Curley, a Massachusetts politician who held nearly every...
November 11, 2009
This cartoon appeared in the pages of The Tablet in 1918.
November 11, 2009
Too late I loved Thee, O Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! And lo!...
November 11, 2009
A Thomas Nast cartoon from the 1870's.
November 11, 2009
Born to a family of Bulgarian Latin Rite Catholics, Vincent Bossilkov joined the Passionists at...
November 11, 2009
On this day in 1961, Pope Blessed John XXIII issued the encyclical Aeterna Dei Sapientia,...
November 11, 2009
On November 11, 1858, the first Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth arrived at the Leavenworth...
November 11, 2009
Immigration of Maronite faithful from the Middle East to the United States began during the...
November 11, 2009
On this day in 1889 began the first lay congress in the history of the...
November 11, 2009
Born near Dublin, as a young woman Catherine McAuley sought to provide solace to sick...
November 10, 2009
Cor ad cor loquitur (“Heart speaks to heart “)John Henry Newman’s motto as a Cardinal
November 10, 2009
When the Paulist Fathers were founded, the community was made up completely of converts. This...
November 10, 2009
In this photo from 1945, a Navy Chaplain distributes communion on the shores of Iwo...
November 10, 2009
On this day in 1845, Father Louis Florent Gillet and Sister Theresa Maxis founded the...
November 10, 2009
Born in Ohio, the descendant of General Edward Braddock of French and Indian War fame,...
November 09, 2009
When once one believes in as creed, one is proud of its complexity, as scientists...
November 09, 2009
Paul Elie’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a great multi-biography of...
November 09, 2009
Born in New York City to Irish immigrant parents, John Daniel Crimmins attended the College...
November 09, 2009
On this day in 1732, St. Alphonsus Liguori founded the Congregation of the Most Holy...
November 08, 2009
MATER DOLOROSABy John Bannister TabbAgain maternal autumn grieves,As blood-like drip the maples leavesOn nature’s Calvary,And...
November 08, 2009
The Bible is a letter from our fatherland.St. Augustine
November 08, 2009
Born Élisabeth Catez in France, she entered the Dijon Carmel on August 2, 1901. She...
November 08, 2009
Francisco Ximenes De Cisneros, Francisco, in Spain commonly called Cisneros, was a well-known statesman, archbishop...
November 08, 2009
Born in Trinidad, Stephen Russell Mallory was educated at the Jesuit’s Spring Hill College in...
November 08, 2009
Born in Germany, his family emigrated to New York when he was six. In 1902,...
November 08, 2009
Before there was an annual Bishops’ meeting, the American hierarchy gathered periodically in the form...
November 08, 2009
Born Margaret Rumer Godden, she grew up in India. In 1925, she opened a dance...
November 08, 2009
On this day in 1960, John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic elected to...
November 07, 2009
November 07, 2009
This painting of Mary with the saints was painted by Guido Reni (1575-1642), an Italian...
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