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October 2009

October 04, 2009
In 1855, Father Pamphilus da Magliano and three Franciscan friars came to Western New York...
October 03, 2009
Mankind's belief in God is a rebuke to, and a condemnation of, the careless atheist....
October 03, 2009
October 03, 2009
Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saints, by Pietro Novelli, 1641. Pietro Novelli (1603 -1647)...
October 03, 2009
On this day in 1829, the First Provincial Council of Baltimore assembled. It was the...
October 03, 2009
Bellarmine College was opened on October 3, 1950, under the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic...
October 03, 2009
Founded in 1791, St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore is the first Catholic seminary...
October 03, 2009
The occasion for the formation of the Catholic Biblical Association was the outcome of the...
October 03, 2009
Born Anne-Thérèse Guérin in France, she joined the Sisters of Providence in 1823. For nearly...
October 03, 2009
Son of an Irish father and a French mother, Joseph Marmion entered the seminary in...
October 03, 2009
Born to an affluent New York family, he was a distant cousin of two Presidents...
October 02, 2009
Today many people, even believers, think that a call to the priesthood or religious life...
October 02, 2009
Thérèse is a film about the life of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. It was first...
October 02, 2009
Born in what is now the Ukraine, he joined the Jesuits in 1872 and was...
October 02, 2009
Today marks the death of Mother Benedict Duss, foundress of Regina Laudis Monastery in Connecticut....
October 02, 2009
Bartolomé Blanco Márquez was born in Pozoblanco, Córdoba Province, Spain in 1914. He was arrested...
October 02, 2009
Born on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1872, George William Mundelein contemplated a naval career...
October 02, 2009
Born to a distinguished family in Champagne, from an early age he was interested in...
October 01, 2009
October 01, 2009
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity...
October 01, 2009
Born in 1799 to Second Earl Spencer (whose descendants include Princess Diana), George Spencer studied...
October 01, 2009
A priest, author, and academic, Romano Guardini was one of the most important figures in...
October 01, 2009
Therese Martin was born to Louis and Zelie Martin at Alençon, France on 2 January...
October 01, 2009
Born in 1877 in Galicia, he graduated from high school and served in the Austrian...
October 01, 2009
Jacques Fesch was the murderer of a French police officer, who became such a devout...

September 2009

September 30, 2009
The [early Church] Fathers made me a Catholic. John Henry Newman
September 30, 2009
The above is from an 1855 book by Edward Beecher titled The Papal Conspiracy Exposed....
September 30, 2009
On this day in 1881, Pope Leo XIII issued Grande Munus, on SS. Cyril &...
September 30, 2009
Ludwig von Pastor (January 31, 1854, Aachen – September 30, 1928, Innsbruck), was the great...
September 29, 2009
The above is a page from a Catechism written in the Sioux language.
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