The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second, not to dare to speak the truth.Pope Leo XIII, On the Opening of the Vatican Archives, August 18, 1883 Read more

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On this day in 1884, during the presidential campaign, Reverend Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, addressing a gathering of the Religious Bureau of the Republican National Committee, a week before the general election, stated: “We are Republicans, and don’t propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been rum, Romanism, and rebellion. We are loyal to our flag.” What Burchard was referring to was this: Democrats at the time tended to be against the prohibition... Read more

Born in Naples, Gaetano Errico entered the local diocesan seminary at age sixteen. In 1815, he was ordained a priest and spent the next twenty years teaching. He had a vision in which St. Alphonsus Liguori instructed him to found a new religious order. He had a great devotion to the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and in 1836 he founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. The community is dedicated to serving the needs... Read more

The whole happiness of man and even his sanity depend on his moral condition. And since society does not exist by itself in a void, but is made up of the individuals who compose it, the problems of society cannot ultimately be solved except in terms of the moral life of individuals. If the citizens are sane, the city will be sane. If the citizens are wild animals, the city will be a jungle.Thomas Merton, The Ascent to Truth Read more

This 1920’s ad is titled “Why I am a Klansman” Check out #’s 7 and 8 for the anti-Catholic part. Read more

Born in Pittsburgh to Irish immigrant parents, Maurice Costello became one of America’s very first movie stars. He got into the business in 1905, and made nearly three hundred films over the course of five decades. One of his first roles was Sherlock Holmes, and he is believed to be the first actor to portray Holmes on-screen. He was one of the very earliest, some say the earliest, matinee idol, earning the sobriquet “the dimpled darling.” While his star declined... Read more

Today marks the death of the Catholic poet and artist David Jones. Born in a suburb of London to a Welsh father and an English mother, he studied art at an early age. During World War I he served in the British army throughout the entire conflict. After he studied art and converted to Catholicism. He worked with the Catholic artist Eric Gill for several years. In fact, he married one of Gill’s daughters. Jones worled as an illustrator for... Read more

Today marks the death of Father Wilfrid Parsons, S.J. (1887-1958), who served as editor-in-chief of the Jesuits’ America magazine from 1925 to 1936. Father Parsons joined the Jesuits at age sixteen and took his vows in 1905. He pursued philosophy studies in Belgium before teaching at several Jesuit schools in Massachusetts and New York. He studied theology at Woodstock College, Maryland, and was ordained in 1919. After ordaintion he was sent to Rome for graduate studies. When he returned, he... Read more

Does anyone know what community this Sister belongs to? Read more