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January 2013

January 18, 2013

Civil War Chaplain Becomes Bishop: Bishop Lawrence S. McMahon, Hartford, CT (1835-1893)

RIGHT REV. LAWRENCE S. McMAHON, Fifth Bishop of Hartford. Lawrence S. Mcmahon was born in...

January 17, 2013

Father Augustine F. Hewit, C.S.P. (1820-1897)

Father Hewit is Dead. The Head of the Paulists Passes Away at the Monastery in...

January 05, 2013

St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860)

FIRST AMERICAN SOON TO BE PLACED, AFTER YEARS OF SOLICITATION BU U.S. CATHOLICS, IN THE...

January 04, 2013

St. Elizabeth Seton (1774-1821), By One who Knew Her

It may be truly said that Mother Seton's manner was the secret of her extraordinary...

January 03, 2013

Holy Name Entertainment, Brooklyn, 1878

ST. PAUL’S R.C. CHURCH. Entertainment Last Evening Under the Auspices of the Society of the...

January 02, 2013

Archbishop John J. Kain, St. Louis (1841-1903)

DIOCESE OF WHEELING. RIGHT REV. JOHN J. KAIN, Bishop of Wheeling. John J. Kain was...

January 01, 2013

A New Year’s Day Sermon, New York, 1901

NEW YEAR’S DAY. THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE LORD. “And after eight days were accomplished, that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Mother Theresa Willingman, O.S.P. (1831-1907)

The sixth Superioress of the Order was Reverend Mother Theresa Willingman, a native of Madison,...

December 30, 2012

“St. Vincent De Paul,” a Poem, 1862

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL A hymn to St. Vincent De Paul, The Apostle of brotherly...

December 22, 2012

“How the Young Colonel Died”

HOW THE YOUNG COLONEL DIED By David Gray You want to hear me tell you...

December 20, 2012

Monsignor Bernard O’Reilly (1820-1907)

Historian, b. 20 Sept., 1820, in County Mayo, Ireland; d. in New York, U.S.A. 26...

December 19, 2012

Carmelites Celebrate Centennial in U.S., 1890

THE CARMELITE CENTENARY (The New York Times, October 16, 1890) Baltimore, October 15.— The Carmelite...

December 18, 2012

Brooklyn’s German Catholics Celebrate Jubilee, 1891

HALF A CENTURY-- Since the German Catholics Came to Brooklyn-- The Fifty Years of the...

December 17, 2012

New York’s First Catholic Mayor: William Russell Grace (1832-1904)

Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21...

December 16, 2012

Funeral Mass for President Lincoln, Brooklyn, April 1865

THE PRESIDENT'S MURDER— UNIVERSAL GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE— MOURNING THROUGHOUT THE CITY— THE DAY IN...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Father Robert Fulton, S.J. (1826-1895), President of Boston College

Rev. James Robert Fulton (The New York Times, September 6, 1895) The Rev. James Robert...

November 29, 2012

Bishop John Moore, St. Augustine, Florida (1834-1901)

MOORE, JOHN, R.C. Bishop, was born in Castletown-Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland, June 24, 1834. In...

November 27, 2012

The Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother

SISTERS OF THE SORROWFUL MOTHER (1889) The Congregation of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, also...

November 03, 2012

The Jesuits in Hell’s Kitchen, 1900

THE WORK OF OUR MISSIONARIES. MISSION IN “HELL’S KITCHEN,” NEW YORK. A Letter from Father...

October 2012

October 27, 2012

Catholic Poetry

FATHER DAMIEN By John Bannister Tabb O God, the cleanest offering Of tainted earth below,...

October 26, 2012

Anti-Catholic Cartoon of the Week, 1928

This poster was issued during the 1928 presidential campaign, when New York Governor Alfred E....

October 25, 2012

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Marc F. Vallette, Brooklyn, New York

Marc F. Vallette, LL.D. Marc F. Vallette, educator, editor, writer, and lecturer, and for many...

October 24, 2012

Lecture on the Church and Western Civilzation, New York, 1866

THE CHURCH THE CIVILIZER OF THE NATIONS. Lecture by the Most Reverend M.J. Spalding, Catholic...

October 23, 2012

General Ethan Allen’s Daughter Enters Convent, 1814

Fanny Allen, daughter of Ethan and Frances Allen, was born in Sunderland, Vermont, November 13,...

October 22, 2012

Notre Dame’s First Irish President: Father Patrick Dillon, C.S.C. (1832-1868)

Rev. P. Dillon, second President of the University of Notre Dame, was born in the...

October 20, 2012

Boston College Football Team, 1913

The Varsity Team of 1909, under the leadership of Captain Pierce, passed through a very...

October 19, 2012

Paul Revere’s Grandson, Civil War General, Becomes Catholic

General Joseph Warren Revere (1812-1880) In the great national conflict which divided the North and...

October 18, 2012

Priest Tarred and Feathered by Mob, Maine, 1854

CATHOLIC PRIEST TARRED AND FEATHERED (The Brooklyn Eagle, October 19, 1854) The Bangor Mercury states...

October 17, 2012

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Nicholas Alten, Lorain, Ohio

Mr. Nicholas C. Alten is a leading and successful hardware merchant, of Lorain, Ohio, and...

October 16, 2012

Anti-Catholic Image of the Week

The years 1910-1915 saw one of the nastiest anti-Catholic backlashes in American history. This cartoon,...