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June 2013

June 05, 2013

Catholics in the Movies: George O’Brien (1899-1985)

The son of San Francisco’s police chief, George O’Brien was the grandson of Irish immigrants...

June 04, 2013

Catholics in the Movies: King Baggot (1879-1948)

The son of an Irish immigrant from Limerick, William King Baggot was born in St....

June 03, 2013

Catholics in the Movies: Nita Naldi (1894-1961)

Nita Naldi was born Mary Nonna Dooley on East 114th Street in Harlem in what...

June 02, 2013

Catholics in the Movies: Maurice Costello (1877-1950)

This week McNamara's Blog features the Catholic presence in American film during the silent and early...

June 01, 2013

General James Shields: Immigrant, Soldier, Senator from Three States

Military officer, b. in Dungannon County Tyrone, Ireland, 12 Dec., 1810; d. at Ottumwa, Iowa,...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

James Ryder Randall and the Music of the Civil War

Journalist and poet, b. 1 Jan., 1839, at Baltimore, Maryland; d. 15 Jan., 1908 at...

May 30, 2013

Charles Ewing (1835-1883): Civil War General, Knight of St. Gregory

Charles Ewing, b. at Lancaster, 6 March, 1835; d. at Washington, 20 June, 1883. Commencing...

May 29, 2013

The Poet of the Confederacy: Father Abram J. Ryan (1839-1886)

The poet-priest of the South, born at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 August, 1839; died at Louisville,...

May 28, 2013

The Convert Brothers: General and Bishop Rosecrans

Born at Kingston, Ohio, 6 Sept., 1819; died near Redondo, California 11 March, 1898. The...

May 27, 2013

James Longstreet (1821-1904): Confederate General, Catholic Convert

Soldier and Catholic convert. Born 8 January, 1821, at Edgefield, South Carolina, U.S.A.; died at...

May 26, 2013

Funeral Sermon for Civil War Nurse, 1897

Born Mary Agnes Grace in 1812, Sister Mary Gonzaga, S.C., was in charge of the...

May 25, 2013

Major Henry F. Brownson (1835-1913): Holy Cross Alumnus, Civil War Veteran, Lay Leader

Henry Francis Brownson was born at Canton, Mass., August 7 1835. His father was the...

May 24, 2013

Brooklyn Church Gets New Flag, 1890

THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY PRESENTS THE FLAG TO ST. PETER'S SUNDAY SCHOOL, BROOKLYN. A...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

The Sisters of St. Joseph, Carondolet, Missouri

In the year 1834 the Right Rev. Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, Missouri, called at...

April 01, 2013

Jesuit Parish Mission at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Fair Haven, CT, August 1884

FAIR HAVEN, CONN.—Fair Haven was till very recently a separate town, but now, it forms...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

Catholic Poetry

THE SISTER OF MERCY By Author Unknown She shares in the hopes of those who...

March 16, 2013

Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Speech, Brooklyn, 1884

“The Day We Celebrate”: Rev. Sylvester Malone at the Annual Banquet of the Friendly Sons...

March 15, 2013

Quote of the Day

The whole course of Christianity from the first… is but one series of troubles and...

March 14, 2013

The Brooklyn Eagle Weighs In On the New Pope, 1847

The Noble Reformer and Philanthropist Pius Ninth (The Brooklyn Eagle, November 29th, 1847) Although we...

March 13, 2013

Father Leopold Bushart, S.J. (1838-1909)

At the time of his death, the Louisville Catholic Record described Father Leopold Bushart as...

February 2013

February 19, 2013

The Christian Brothers Come to the United States, 1848

Brother Stylien, F.S.C. (1808-1880) Born in France, in 1808, Brother Stylien (L.A. Lissignol, 1808-1880) entered...

February 18, 2013

Did the Jesuits Assassinate Lincoln?

According to this anti-Catholic pamphlet issued in the 1920's, they did. In the years following...

February 15, 2013

Former Episcopal Priest Discusses His Conversion to Catholicism, 1897

MR. ADAMS’ CONVERSION-- The ex-Epsicopalian Clergyman Tells How He was Led to Embrace Catholicism (The...

February 14, 2013

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Daughter Becomes Nun, 1899

SERVANTS OF RELIEF FOR INCURABLE CANCER (1899) “I am trying to serve the poor as...

February 13, 2013

Ash Wednesday, New York, 1884

OBSERVING ASH WEDNESDAY (The New York Times, February 28, 1884) Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, and the...

February 11, 2013

A Momentous Day in Church History– To Say the Least

When I got up this morning, my wife told me the news about the Pope...

February 10, 2013

First American Bishop Eulogizes President Washington, 1800

Bishop John Carroll’s Eulogy on the Death of President Washington, February 22nd, 1800 When the...

February 09, 2013

America’s First Italian Bishop: Joseph Rosati, C.M. (1789-1843)

RIGHT REV. JOSEPH ROSATI, First Bishop of St. Louis Joseph Rosati was born at Sora,...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Quote of the Day, from Bishop John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916)

January 20 To become an ethical fact, to have moral worth, knowledge must pass into...

January 19, 2013

Famous 19th Century Singer Becomes Nun in West Virginia

A GREAT SINGER DEAD. SISTER AGNES GUBERT, THE FAMOUS NUN, DIES IN BALTIMORE. (The New...