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January 2011

January 18, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column is about John Hughes (1797-1864), who was New York's first Archbishop....

January 18, 2011

Millionaire Saint Enters Pittsburgh Convent, November 1889

MISS DREXEL ENTERS THE CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY.The New York Times, November 8,...

January 16, 2011

“What Better or More Blessed Investment”: Cathedral Preparatory Seminary, Elmhurst, New York

Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception, Brooklyn On the morning of September 7, 1914, eighty-five young...

January 13, 2011

“The School of the Lord’s Service”: St. Benedict, His Monks, and Western Civilization

An Oxford graduate and Catholic convert whose writings influenced Tolkien and T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson...

January 12, 2011

St. John’s College, Brooklyn, 1914

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGEBrooklyn, New York City, N. Y.In the year 1865, Right Rev. John Loughlin,...

January 11, 2011

Check out Pat’s Weekly Column at Patheos!

Dear Friends, As you may know, in addition to the blog, I also write a...

January 11, 2011

Jesuit’s Funeral Draws Thousands in Manhattan, January 1909

THOUSANDS MOURN FOR FATHER PARDOWWomen and Children Weep During Funeral Services for the Noted Jesuit...

January 10, 2011

Quote of the Day

I think I am right in saying that the tradition of the Apostles, committed to...

January 09, 2011

Sermon at a Children’s Mass, 1900

FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY Gospel. Luke ii. 42-52 THE FINDING IN THE TEMPLE This day’s...

January 09, 2011

Catholic Poetry

FOR THE MAGI BY J. Patrick Walsh, S.J. In the end, not valor, ecstasy of...

January 07, 2011

The Setons, the Bayleys, and the Roosevelts

Archbishop Robert Seton was remembered as a fairly eccentric character who made a good deal...

January 05, 2011

Quote of the Day

History shows that the Catholic Church from the day that she was founded has constantly...

January 04, 2011

Roads to Rome: Bishop Levi Silliman Ives (1797-1867)

In 1852, Dr. Levi Silliman Ives, the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, traveled to Rome,...

January 03, 2011

“This Faithful and Devout Catholic Soldier”: Lieutenant Colonel Julius P. Garesché (1821-1862)

The Battle of Stones River, which took place on December 31, 1862, in Tennessee, was...

December 2010

December 31, 2010

“She Has Missed Her Vocation”: Mother Aloysia Hardey, R.S.C.J. (1809-1886)

In 1792, when the French revolutionary government repressed all religious orders in the country, it...

December 28, 2010

Bishop John Chanche and Catholicism in Mississippi, 1841-1852

After Pope Gregory XVI created the Diocese of Natchez* in 1837, it was four years...

December 27, 2010

“Really Franciscan”: St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Manhattan (1844)

Urban ministry has been part of the Franciscan tradition from the start, and St. Francis...

December 25, 2010

Christmas Sermon, St. Paul the Apostle, Manhattan, ca. 1886

CHRISTMAS JOYBehold, I bring you tidings of great joy. – Luke ii.10There is hardly any...

December 23, 2010

1841 Advertisement for Fordham

I found this ad in the pages of the Brooklyn Eagle, and I'm pretty sure...

December 15, 2010

Quote of the Day

“The Catholic Church… comes not to destroy the natural, but to fulfill—to purify, elevate, direct,...

December 15, 2010

Apologies for a Lengthy Absence– And Good News!

Dear Friends,I hope you will forgive my lengthy absence from the blog, but let me...

November 2010

November 24, 2010

Roads to Rome: Alice Morton Rutherfurd (1879-1917)

Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Alice Morton Rutherfurd was the daughter of Levi P. Morton,...

November 23, 2010

The Bishop Who Ran the Blockade: Patrick N. Lynch and the Confederacy

During the Civil War, congregations North and South often sided with their respective governments. This...

November 22, 2010

The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth (1875)

For Poles, the nineteenth century is known as the “century of sadness,” when a once-great...

November 21, 2010

Catholic Poetry

THE ANSWERED “AVE”By J.W.S. NorrisThe dear Saint Bernard ere eve’s shadows fellThroughout the cloister’s fair...

November 21, 2010

Sunday Sermons, 1878

Twenty-Fourth or Last Sunday After PentecostEPISTLE. Col. i. 9-14.GOSPEL. St. Matt. xxiv. 15-35.Behold I have...

November 20, 2010

Quote of the Day

“The Church needs both the men who act and the men who think; and since...

November 19, 2010

A Monastery in the Bronx: Corpus Christi (1889)

Contemplative nuns form one of the Dominican order’s oldest branches. Their prayer apostolate is meant...

November 18, 2010

Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown (1789)

HOLY TRINITY, WASHINGTON D.C.---This parish is one of the oldest in the archdiocese. The first...

November 17, 2010

Quote of the Day

This is one of the very queerest of the common delusions about what happens to...