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November 2014

November 01, 2014
FEAST OF ALL SAINTS: The Intercession of the Saints. "You have come to Mount Sion,...

October 2014

October 31, 2014
On the eve of  All Hallows (All Saints), it seems appropriate to focus on a...
October 30, 2014
The following review of my new book, New York Catholics, appears this week in The...
October 29, 2014
Between 1910 and 1917, this actress appeared in some 109 movies, featured mainly as a...
October 28, 2014
Ignatius Aloysius Reynolds was born near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 22, 1798, of one of the...
October 17, 2014
This cartoon was circulated from the early 1900’s through the 1920’s, when anti-Catholicism reached a...
October 16, 2014
MISS DAHLGREN TO BE A NUN. Society Girl to Join Sisterhood that Aids Negroes and...
October 09, 2014
Saint Philip in His School. This is the Saint of gentleness and kindness, Cheerful in...
October 08, 2014
Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., The Franciscan Heart of Thomas Merton: A New Look at the...
October 04, 2014
St. Anthony of Padua, New York, New York (1866) THERE can be little doubt but...
October 01, 2014
Song of Gratitude to Our Lady of Mount Carmel From the first moments of my...

September 2014

September 30, 2014
Jon M. Sweeney, When Saint Francis Saved the Church: How a Converted Medieval Troubador Created...
September 24, 2014
On Friday, September 19, Orbis Books held a book launching party for my new book...
September 19, 2014
This widely circulated tract did duty in several anti-Catholic campaigns in the 1910’s and 1920’s....
September 18, 2014
Very Rev. Joseph Augustine Kelly, O.P.— Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1827. Came to America at...
September 17, 2014
New York, October 29th, 1863 Most Holy Father Visible Head of the Church of Jesus...
September 16, 2014
My new book New York Catholics: Faith, Attitude & the Works! is now available on...

August 2014

August 17, 2014
Born in New York City on September 10, 1858, Hugh J. Grant grew up in...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
Born in Baltimore, John Lee Carroll was the great-great-grandson of Charles Carroll (1737-1832), the sole...
July 19, 2014
ODE FOR THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF VILLANOVA COLLEGE (1892) By Eleanor C. Donnelly OH !...
July 14, 2014
Williams, Fritz (Frederick Williams): Actor; b. in Boston, Mass., August 23, 1865; parents member at...
July 13, 2014
Joseph McKenna was one of the few politicians to have served in all three branches...
July 11, 2014
Mike Mazurki was what is known as a “Brothers’ Boy.” Born Mikhail Mazurkiewicz in Austria-Hungary,...
July 10, 2014
Very Rev. William Starrs, D.D. (The New York Times,  February 7, 1873) Very Rev. William...
July 06, 2014
Born in County Cork, Ireland, on April 24, 1874, Annie Moore was the first immigrant to...
July 05, 2014
Mrs. J. Delehanty  is Carmelite Nun. Former Miss Monahan of Brooklyn, Now a Widow, Joins...
July 04, 2014
With the Fourth of July, McNamara's Blog launches a new feature, "Catholics in Public Service."...
July 03, 2014
On America's great baptismal day, the Spirit of God moved like a wave over the...
July 01, 2014

June 2014

June 29, 2014
Born in Christiansburg, Virginia, Henry King left school at fifteen to work. Beginning as a...
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