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August 2009

August 28, 2009
Into Great Silence is a great documentary about life in a Carthusian monastery in Europe....
August 28, 2009
There’s no pot without bacon in it, and no sermon without St. Augustine. Spanish proverb
August 28, 2009
Born in Michigan, John Francis O’Hara grew up in Indiana. In 1905, his father was...
August 28, 2009
Miguel Jose Serra was born on the island of Mallorca. At sixteen he joined the...
August 28, 2009
This page is taken from the 1956 book Our Friends the Saints, by Daniel A....
August 27, 2009
August 27, 2009
The goodness of God knows how to use our disordered wishes and actions, often lovingly...
August 27, 2009
Born Felice Perretti in 1521, joined the Minorite friars at an early age. Ordained in...
August 27, 2009
Today marks the death of Titian, the leading painter of the 16th-century Venetian school of...
August 27, 2009
This page appeared in the 1956 book Our Friends the Saints by Daniel A. Lord,...
August 27, 2009
Francisco de Zurbarán (November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He...
August 26, 2009
By now you've probably guessed that one of my great loves is Church History. Western...
August 26, 2009
This summer the people at Deacon Greg Kandra's show Currents interviewed me about what I...
August 26, 2009
This 1920's cartoon reflects the belief of many anti-Catholics that the Church was trying to...
August 26, 2009
There are three theories of power and therefore of authority, to wit; the robber theory...
August 26, 2009
Born on November 27, 1765 in the Sancey-le-Long in the Doubs department in France, Jeanne...
August 25, 2009
Father William Bonniwell (1886-1984) was a Dominican priest who specialized in the history of liturgy....
August 25, 2009
This ad for the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, appeared in an 1889 journal.
August 25, 2009
There are two ways of conceiving the mastery of man over himself. Man can become...
August 25, 2009
From Aragon, where he was born in 1556, to Rome, where he died 92 years...
August 25, 2009
While considered more of a remote intellectual than a personable pastor, John Lancaster Spalding, first...
August 25, 2009
Born in London, Richard Crashaw was the son of a strongly anti-Catholic divine, Dr William...
August 24, 2009
A book worth looking is Bishop Mark J. Hurley's 1992 Unholy Ghost: Anti-Catholicism in the...
August 24, 2009
This 1947 poster features a games between Niagara University and St. Vincent's College. On Saturdays...
August 24, 2009
This week's baseball photo goes back to the late 1800's. It shows a group of...
August 24, 2009
The exile of God means the tyrannization of man.Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
August 24, 2009
Sister Mary Luke Tobin (May 16, 1908 - August 24, 2006) was an American Roman...
August 24, 2009
Ernst Wiechert (18 May 1887 – 24 August 1950) was a German teacher, poet and...
August 24, 2009
Born to Spanish immigrants to the New World. A beautiful girl and devoted daughter, she...
August 23, 2009
CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSEBy Alice MeynellWith this ambiguous earth His dealings have been told us....
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