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August 09, 2009
Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society. St. Francis of Assisi
August 09, 2009
Youngest of seven children in a Jewish family. Edith lost interest and faith in Judaism...
August 09, 2009
Joyce Kilmer once wrote that the Church has never lacked poets in its long history....
August 09, 2009
Today marks the death of Walter O’Malley, who moved the Dodgers out of Brooklyn in...
August 09, 2009
Born to Rosalia Huber and Franz Bachmeier, servants too poor to get married. His father...
August 09, 2009
Oldest of seven children born to Juan Miguel Cipitria and María Jesús Barriola. The family...
August 08, 2009
Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing...
August 08, 2009
As Catholics, we’re surrounded by art: statues, paintings, and stained glass windows, to name some...
August 08, 2009
Today marks the death of Blessed Mary McKillop, who is on her way to becoming...
August 08, 2009
Today marks the death of Charles E. McDonnell, the second Bishop of Brooklyn. Born in...
August 08, 2009
Today in 1910 marks the issuance of the decre Quam Singulari, which lowered the minimum...
August 08, 2009
Domingo Guzman came from a wealthy Castillian family. As a priest he became interested in...
August 07, 2009
When the first twelve Ursulines came from France to New Orleans in 1727, they opened...
August 07, 2009
Do not be afraid to be saints.Pope John Paul II
August 07, 2009
Archive.org has an 1878 book available for online viewing titled The Catholic Church in New...
August 07, 2009
Longford is a 2006 British TV movie directed by Tom Hooper and written by Peter...
August 07, 2009
A member of a wealthy, landed, Polish noble family. He studied literature at universities in...
August 07, 2009
A Jesuit, poet, opponent of trials for witchcraft. Born at Kaiserswerth, he joined the Jesuits...
August 07, 2009
Born in Pennsylvania to Italian immigrants, he graduated from Mount St. Mary's Seminary and was...
August 07, 2009
On this day in 1727, a group of Ursulines arrived in New Orleans, making them...
August 07, 2009
On this day in 1814, Pope Pius VII issued the papal bull Solicitudo omnium ecclesiarum,...
August 06, 2009
A depiction of America's Cardinals, as seen in 1960.
August 06, 2009
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not...
August 06, 2009
Today marks the death of Bishop Francois Fenelon, and the following is taken from the...
August 06, 2009
Today marks the death of Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), born Giovanni Battista Montini. Born in...
August 06, 2009
Born Katherine Russell in County Down, Ireland, she joined the Sisters of Mercy at age...
August 06, 2009
This day in 1966 saw the first wedding in the Great Upper Church of Washington,...
August 06, 2009
Today marks the death of Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia, and the following is taken from the...
August 06, 2009
On this day in 1993, Pope John Paul II issued the encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The...
August 06, 2009
His origin is unknown. During the pontificate of his predecessor, St. Stephen, a sharp dispute...
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