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September 2011

September 25, 2011

Catholic Poetry

Born in Ireland, Father Thomas N. Burke (1803-1882) ministered there as a Dominican priest. He...

September 24, 2011

Sisters of St. Zita (1903)

The Sisters of Reparation of the Congregation of Mary, intimately known in their home surroundings...

September 11, 2011

Catholic Poetry

CATHEDRAL BIRDS.[During the ceremonies of Dedication of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, May 25th, 1879,...

September 08, 2011

Bishop James A. McFaul, Trenton, New Jersey (1850-1917)

McFaul, James Augustine, second Roman Catholic Bishop of Trenton, was born in Larne, county Antrim,...

September 07, 2011

Johnny Clem, “The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga”

On the afternoon of September 20th, 1863, during the Battle of Chickamauga, as Union troops...

September 06, 2011

Montana’s First Nuns

The first white women to cross the Coeur d'Alene Mountains were four Sisters of Providence:...

August 2011

August 24, 2011

Private Thomas H. Higgins, Vicksburg, 1863

“Come On, You Brave Yank”The assault upon that part of the works of Vicksburg, occupied...

August 23, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's column at Patheos focuses on Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (1856-1933), son of...

August 22, 2011

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Countess Annie Leary, New York, New York

Leary, Annie, philanthropist, was born about 1860, in New York City, daughter of James and...

August 16, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column deals with the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850's and anti-Catholicism in...

August 02, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features a group of women I greatly admire, the Sisters of...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Military Training at Catholic Colleges, 1910

Georgetown University Cadets stand in the forefront at the university's centennial celebration, 1889. Note the...

July 26, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features Thomas Verner Moore, who founded the first (and to date...

July 25, 2011

Nun Honored for Civil War Service, 1910

In 1910, Sister M. Anastasia Quinn, who nursed in the Douglas Hospital, was still living...

July 23, 2011

St. Brigid’s, New York, and the Picnic Controversy of 1869

Picnics and the Catholic Church.The New York Times, July 22, 1869It is well known that...

July 22, 2011

Roads to Rome: Major General Erasmus D. Keyes (1810-1895)

One of the most interesting places in this interesting land of ours is the United...

July 08, 2011

Kate Vannah (1855-1933), Poet and Composer

Authentic Sketches of Living Catholic AuthorsThe Catholic World (June 1897), 426-427. Kate Vannah was born...

July 05, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features the second of two parts on Blessed John Henry Newman....

July 04, 2011

A Poem for the Fourth of July

The Raising of the Flag Conde Benoist Pallen Lift up the banner of our love...

July 01, 2011

A Saint’s Daughter: Mother Catherine Seton, R.S.M. (1800-1891)

MOTHER CATHERINE SETON, NEW YORK, SERVANT OF PRISONERSMother Catherine Seton was the youngest daughter of...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

Captain Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (1838-1862)

A beautiful soul was Captain Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff. graduated in 1859, who fell at the...

June 28, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column is the first of a two-part series on Blessed John Henry...

June 26, 2011

Corpus Christi Celebrated in East New York, Brooklyn, 1879

Parish procession, St. Michael, East New York, Brooklyn, 1905CORPUS CHRISTI. The Feast Celebrated by the...

June 25, 2011

From Rome to Little Bighorn: Captain Myles W. Keogh (1840-1876)

Growing up in County Carlow, Ireland, young Myles Keogh’s favorite book was Charles O’Malley, The...

June 24, 2011

Mother Gonzaga O’Brien, R.S.M. (1834-1920), and the Catholic Church in New Hampshire

By all accounts, Sarah Anne O’Brien (1834-1920) was a formidable character. Raised in comfort, she...

June 23, 2011

Father Augustus Lemonnier, C.S.C. (1839-1874)

Although Notre Dame’s sports teams are known as the “Fighting Irish,” the school was actually...

June 21, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column focuses on the Seton family, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and her...

June 20, 2011

Fordham baseball—The Beginnings

The following excerpt from the history of Fordham University (then known as St. John's College)...

June 19, 2011

When Williamsburg was German: Most Holy Trinity Church (1841)

New York is always reinventing itself, and nowhere is this more true than in Brooklyn’s...

June 18, 2011

Archbishop Edmond F. Prendergast, Philadelphia (1843-1918)

E.F. PRENDERGAST, PRELATE, DIES AT 74Archbishop of Philadelphia Succumbs to Diabetes After Three Months’ Illness.TALLEST...