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July 2009

July 29, 2009
THE TERESIAN CONTEMPLATIVEby Robert Hugh BensonShe moves in tumult; round her liesThe silence of the...
July 29, 2009
Today in 1853 marks the founding of the Diocese of Brooklyn (along with several other...
July 29, 2009
Today marks the death of Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644), and the following is adapted from...
July 29, 2009
Today marks the death of Blessed Urban II, who is most famous for calling together...
July 29, 2009
Today marks the passing of St. Olaf II of Norway (1015-1028). The following is from...
July 29, 2009
Today marks the death of Bishop James E. Walsh, and the following is taken from...
July 28, 2009
Several years ago at Fordham University, Dr. Paul Halsall did a fascinating project with his...
July 28, 2009
All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions...
July 28, 2009
Blessed Catherine Anne Emmerich (1774-1824) was a German mystic and stigmatic whose visions were collected...
July 28, 2009
Today marks the death of composer Antonio Vivaldi, whose best known work is The Four...
July 28, 2009
Today marks the death of Father Stanley Rother (1935-1981), who was killed in Guatemala and...
July 28, 2009
Today marks the Feast of St. Alphonsa, and the following is adapted from alphonsa.com: Alphonsa...
July 28, 2009
Today in 1906, Pope St. Pius X issued the encyclical Pieni L’Animo, which focused on...
July 27, 2009
Master Blogger Rocco Palmo notes that the Baltimore Archdiocese is commemorating the birth date of...
July 27, 2009
Over at America magazine's blog, Michael Sean Winters has this to say about Church history:...
July 27, 2009
This 1912 photo shows the baseball team for Sacred Heart parish in the Bayside section...
July 27, 2009
Last week's book was a history of the Archdiocese of New York, and this week's...
July 27, 2009
Here's some ideas from the 1874 Catholic Almanac.
July 27, 2009
Grace can and does have a history.Karl Rahner
July 27, 2009
Today also marks the death of Bob Hope, who converted to Catholicism (largely through the...
July 27, 2009
Today marks the death of Pope Victor II, and the following is taken from the...
July 27, 2009
On this day in 1549, St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) reached Japan. Francis had a major...
July 27, 2009
Today marks the death of the French Catholic author and historian Henri Daniel-Rops. Daniel- Rops...
July 26, 2009
Faith means the fundamental response to the love that has offered itself up for me....
July 26, 2009
Today in 1848, the first De La Salle Christian Brothers arrived in America on Manhattan’s...
July 26, 2009
Bartolomea Capitanio (1807-1833) born in Lovere, Italy was, with Vincenza Gerosa, one of the foundresses...
July 26, 2009
Born at Venice, 1417; elected 30 August, 1464; died 26 July, 1471; son of Niccolo...
July 26, 2009
Born in Malta, Blessed George Preca was baptised in the Parish Church of Our Lady...
July 26, 2009
Blessed Titus Brandsma (1881–1942) was a Dutch Carmelite priest and professor of philosophy vehemently opposed...
July 25, 2009
Grace is nothing else but a certain beginning of glory within us.St. Thomas Aquinas
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