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May 2011

May 16, 2011

Anti-Catholic Rally in California, 1895

TO PURIFY POLITICS. That is the Sole Aim and Object of the A.P.A.State President Huddleston...

May 15, 2011

St. Bridget Church Dedicated, Lexington, Massachusetts, May 1891

ST. BRIDGET’S DEDICATED. Lexington Catholics Proud of Their Church.Impressive Ceremonies and Notable Music in New...

May 14, 2011

Cardinal John J. Glennon, St. Louis (1862-1946)

John Joseph Glennon John Joseph Glennon, archbishop of the St. Louis diocese and one of...

May 12, 2011

Major Michael O’Connor, Ninth Massachusetts Infantry (1861-1898)

CATHOLICS IN THE ARMY AND THE NAVY. MAJOR MICHAEL O'CONNOR. It seems difficult to realize...

May 11, 2011

The Plagues of Memphis, 1873-1879

FATHER ALOYSIUS WIEWER. O. F. M. Priest Hero of the Yellow Fever. During the fever...

May 10, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

Why is Manhattan College in the Bronx?By Pat McNamaraA religious Brother’s vocation is unique. Free...

May 09, 2011

St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, Bronx, New York, 1886

Madame Victorine Boucher (1812-1883)St. Joseph's Institute for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes, Fordham. Incorporated...

May 08, 2011

Catholic Poetry

IN ROMEBy Father Abram J. Ryan At last, the dream of youth Stands fair and...

May 07, 2011

Daughters of the Eucharist, Maryland, 1930

Mother Katherine A. DietzDaughters of the Eucharist (1909) With the approval of His Eminence, James...

May 06, 2011

St. Augustine Church, Bronx, New York, 1878

St. Augustine Church, Morrisania, as seen in the year 1878. CHURCH OF SAINT AUGUSTINE. ONE...

May 05, 2011

Roads to Rome: Molly Elliot Seawell (1860-1916)

MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL,WASHINGTON, D. C.Author of "The House of Egremont," "The Fortunes of Fifi," etc.In...

May 04, 2011

Chicago’s New Archbishop, 1915

George William Mundelein, third Archbishop of Chicago, was born on July 2, 1872, son of...

May 03, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column focuses on a Native American Catholic catechist, Nicholas Black Elk, who...

May 02, 2011

Chronicling Catholic Gotham: Thomas F. Meehan (1854-1942)

On the evening of July 7, 1942, Thomas Francis Meehan passed away at his home...

May 01, 2011

A May Poem From Fordham, 1904

Recollection Whitney Eckert, ‘03The Fordham Monthly (May 1904)How often in the blessed month of May,...

April 2011

April 30, 2011

The Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, 1884

FRANCISCANS.Their Work in Brooklyn as Educators of Youth. The Schools Established by Them and the...

April 29, 2011

Boston’s Maronite Catholics, 1895

THE MARONITE MISSIONIN recent years many people of the Arabic races have taken up their...

April 28, 2011

The Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas

MOUNT ST. SCHOLASTICA CONVENT, ATCHISON, KAN. Mount St. Scholastica’s is the older of the two...

April 27, 2011

A Guest Column at YIM Catholic

This week, I did a guest column for Frank Weathers' great blog YIM Catholic, on...

April 27, 2011

Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy (1884-1956), Bishop of Brooklyn

RIGHT REV. THOMAS E. MOLLOY, Bishop of Brooklyn, when thirty-six years of age, was consecrated...

April 26, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features an 1876 Easter sermon at St. Paul the Apostle Church,...

April 25, 2011

Professor Edward A. Scott (1829-1898): “Irish, Catholic, Confederate”

Edward A. Scott was born in Ireland and came to America at age fourteen. He...

April 24, 2011

A Poem for Easter

Drawing by Pat McNamara, 1992To Pius X at Easter John Hazard Wildman (1911-1992) Pius, the...

April 23, 2011

From the Question Box: “Here Comes Everybody!”

“Is not your Church the only Church that does not demand moral character as a...

April 22, 2011

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence…

THE TWELFTH STATION Jesus dies upon the Cross V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi....

April 22, 2011

Seven Churches Visited on Holy Thursday: Lowell, Massachusetts (1894)

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES. DEVOUT WORSHIPPERS VISIT REPOSITORIES IN CHURCHES.Commemoration of the Day of the Crucifixion...

April 21, 2011

Blessed Sacrament Church, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn (1891)

BLESSED SACRAMENT, Brooklyn, N.Y. — To relieve the overcrowding of St. Malachy's due to the...

April 20, 2011

Anti-Catholicism on Film, 1911

This 1912 photograph was taken in front of St. Patrick's rectory, Huntington, during the 25th...

April 19, 2011

Missionary of the Passion: Father James Kent Stone, C.P. (1840-1921)

Father James Kent Stone, C.P., in his Passionist habit, as seen in the early 1880's....

April 18, 2011

How to Hear Women’s Confessions, From an 1897 Manual

Confessions of Women. A dangerous rock which the priest encounters in the stormy sea of...