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October 2009

October 09, 2009
Fr. Theodore Foley, C.P., was a Roman Catholic priest and the superior general of the...
October 09, 2009
Today marks the death of Servant of God Mathew Kavukattu (1904 -1969) an Archbishop in...
October 08, 2009
For our Leader, the Divine Word, does not demand a strong body and beautiful countenance,...
October 08, 2009
October 08, 2009
Fra' Filippo Lippi, also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento...
October 08, 2009
Gabriel Marcel was a philosopher, drama critic, playwright and musician. He converted to Catholicism in...
October 08, 2009
Born in Florida, Louis Twomey graduated from Jesuit High School in 1923. In 1926 he...
October 08, 2009
Elizabeth Nourse was a portrait and landscape painter born in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Mt....
October 07, 2009
Pessimism says that life is so short that it gives nobody a chance; religion says...
October 07, 2009
This poster from the 1850’s complains of “the alarming increase in popery.”
October 07, 2009
On Sunday 7 October 1571 the combined Christian fleets under Don John of Austria achieved...
October 07, 2009
Back in the 1840’s, when the Bronx was considered “country,” Edgar Allan Poe brought his...
October 06, 2009
Christianity is eminently an objective religion. For the most part it tells us of persons...
October 06, 2009
Here is the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, the Paulist motherhouse in Manhattan, as...
October 06, 2009
The son of Irish immigrants, Terence Cooke was born in Manhattan. He studied at Cathedral...
October 06, 2009
Born in Tuscany, he received the nickname of Baccio della Porta for his house was...
October 06, 2009
Born Isidore de Loor in Flanders, his educatuion ended when he was twelve, so he...
October 05, 2009
Personal experience proves the lesson of history, that what religion needs is not so much...
October 05, 2009
The baseball team of St. John’s College (now Fordham University) as seen sometime in the...
October 05, 2009
Every July New York City has three separate festivals in honor of Our Lady of...
October 05, 2009
Born in Bavaria, he was studying for the diocesan priesthood when he encountered the Redemptorists...
October 05, 2009
Son of a physician, Longo grew up in a well-to-do devout Catholic family, but fell...
October 05, 2009
Born Helena Kowalska in Poland, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady...
October 05, 2009
Born in Italy, he attended the Catholic Action group in the parish, where his faith...
October 04, 2009
A gift is freely given, and expects no return. Its reason is love. What is...
October 04, 2009
PER PACEM AD LUCEM by Adelaide A. Procter I DO not ask, O Lord, that...
October 04, 2009
The Seven Storey Mountain is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a Trappist Monk and a...
October 04, 2009
Today marks the day that Pope Paul VI visited the United Nations, delivering his famous...
October 04, 2009
Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. (December 30, 1873–October 4, 1944), known in private and public life...
October 04, 2009
Son of Pietro Bernadone, a rich cloth merchant. Though he had a good education and...
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