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February 2009

February 18, 2009
The sixteenth century saw a plethora of new religious communities like the Jesuits and the...
February 17, 2009
St. Patrick's Day is one month away!
February 17, 2009
The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk was one of 19th century America’s best sellers. It...
February 17, 2009
The phrase "Catholic Action" was an all-encompassing term that came into wide usage at the...
February 17, 2009
Today in 1836 marks the founding of the Congregation of the Resurrection in France. The...
February 16, 2009
Tomorrow marks the death of General James Rowan O’Beirne (1844-1917), Civil War general and public...
February 16, 2009
In 1864, at the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and his wife...
February 16, 2009
Today marks the death of Father Stephen Eckert (1869-1923), a Capuchin priest dedicated to working...
February 16, 2009
Today marks the death of Francis Hodur (1866-1953), who led the only large-scale schism in...
February 16, 2009
In 1789, America got its first President, George Washington, and its first R.C. Bishop, John...
February 15, 2009
Today marks the death of Cardinal Aloisius Muench (1889-1962), professor, bishop, and papal diplomat. Born...
February 15, 2009
Yesterday was the Feast of SS. Cyril & Methodius, and today in 1903 marks the...
February 15, 2009
On this day in 1891, the First Mass was celebrated at Blessed Sacrament Church in...
February 15, 2009
Today marks the death of Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865), first Archbishop of Westminster and the first...
February 14, 2009
Put him in a stained glass window! This window, located in the sacristy of St....
February 14, 2009
There’s never been a newspaper quite like The American Catholic Tribune, an independent Catholic newspaper...
February 14, 2009
Today marks pop culture icon and lifelong Catholic Florence Henderson’s seventy-fifth birthday. Born Florence Agnes...
February 14, 2009
On February 14, 1898, in Spanish-controlled Havana harbor, the U.S. battleship Maine blew up, the...
February 13, 2009
JOHN D. CALANDRA ITALIAN AMERICAN INSTITUTEQueens College, CUNYTHE PHILIP V. CANNISTRARO SEMINAR SERIES IN ITALIAN...
February 13, 2009
Willa Cather once wrote that the story of the Catholic Church in the American Southwest...
February 13, 2009
Today marks the death of John Bernard Fitzpatrick (1812-1866), Boston’s third Bishop. While his father...
February 12, 2009
Today also marks the death of Father Christopher Clavius (1538-1612), the Jesuit mathematician and astronomer...
February 12, 2009
February 12, 2009
Today in 1952 marks the debut of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Emmy award winning television...
February 12, 2009
Today marks the release in 1919 of a document known as the “Bishops’ Program of...
February 11, 2009
The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes offers a good opportunity to pay tribute to...
February 11, 2009
When the Brooklyn Diocese was founded in 1853, the bulk of its people were German...
February 11, 2009
Today marks the signing of the Lateran Treaty in 1929 between the Holy See (the...
February 11, 2009
Today marks the death of Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan (1831-1911), the sixth ordinary of the...
February 10, 2009
Today marks the death of Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940), who along with Jane Addams founded...
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