Fr. Theodore Foley, C.P., was a Roman Catholic priest and the superior general of the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ from 1964 – 1974. On May 9, 2008, the cause for beatification and canonization of Father Foley was opened in Rome. Born Daniel Foley in Springfield, Massachusetts, he studied at the Passionist preparatory seminary in Dunkirk, New York. In 1933m he professed his vows as a Passionist and took the name Theodore. Ordained in 1940, Father Foley taught... Read more

Today marks the death of Servant of God Mathew Kavukattu (1904 –1969) an Archbishop in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. His Cause of Canonization was begun in 1991.(From Wikipedia) Read more

For our Leader, the Divine Word, does not demand a strong body and beautiful countenance, or high and noble birth, but a pure soul, well-grounded in holiness, He demands the password of our King, namely, divine deeds, for the power to perform such deeds is transmitted to the soul through the Word. St. Justin Martyr, Discourse to the Greeks Read more

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Fra’ Filippo Lippi, also called Lippo Lippi, was an Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school. Orphaned at an early age, he was left at a Carmelite convent, where he grew up and pronounced vows in 1421. In the evolution of the Renaissance Fra Filippo played a part of the utmost importance. His naturalism tempered by artistic feeling inspired the most beautiful masterpieces; and as his early and descriptive paintings were to be the inspiration of Benozzo Gozzoli,... Read more

Gabriel Marcel was a philosopher, drama critic, playwright and musician. He converted to Catholicism in 1929 and his philosophy was later described as “Christian Existentialism” (most famously in Jean-Paul Sartre’s “Existentialism is a Humanism”) a term he initially endorsed but later repudiated. In addition to his numerous philosophical publications, he was the author of some thirty dramatic works. Marcel gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen in 1949-1950, which appeared in print as the two-volume The Mystery of Being, and the... Read more

Born in Florida, Louis Twomey graduated from Jesuit High School in 1923. In 1926 he turned down a baseball contract with the Washington Senators to enter the Jesuits’ New Orleans Province. Ordained in 1939, he taught for three decades at Loyola University in New Orleans. While he was there, he founded the Institute of Industrial Relations, an organization dedicated to improving labor-management relations. Through the institute he also promoted vocational training, community development and race relations. In 1948, he started... Read more

Elizabeth Nourse was a portrait and landscape painter born in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Mt. Healthy area. She also was familiar with working with watercolors, painting furniture and sculpting. Raised Catholic, she attended the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati at age fifteen, and was one of the first women admitted to the women’s life class offered there taught by Thomas Satterwhite Noble. She also studied watercolor painting while there. She studied at the school for seven years and was... Read more

Pessimism says that life is so short that it gives nobody a chance; religion says that life is so short that it gives everybody his final chance.G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to Nicholas Nickeleby Read more

This poster from the 1850’s complains of “the alarming increase in popery.” Read more