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October 2010

October 26, 2010

“An Uncompromising Defender of His Faith and Church”: Bishop Jeremiah F. Shanahan (1834-1886)

Born to immigrant parents from County Cork, Jeremiah Francis Shanahan grew up in Pennsylvania. There...

October 25, 2010

“And Now Bishop, Minister, and Church Are All Catholic!”

St. Charles Borromeo parish, Brooklyn, N.Y., was founded in 1849 by Father Charles Constantine Pise...

October 25, 2010

“The White Sisters”: The Daughters of the Holy Spirit

The unidentified sister in the above photograph is a member of a community whose roots...

October 24, 2010

Catholic Poetry

SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISIUM Saint Francis, favorite of the Infant Jesus, Weeping in Bethlehem hot...

October 24, 2010

Sunday Sermons

SERMON ON CHRISTIAN HOPEPreached at Catholic Summer School by Father KennedyAt the Catholic Summer School,...

October 23, 2010

College Football Photo of the Week

Seen above is the cover of a 1949 programme for Yale versus Holy Cross College....

October 23, 2010

The Fathers of Mercy

Seen above is Father Eugene H. Porcile, S.P.M. (1839-1912), a French-born member of the Fathers...

October 22, 2010

A Tour of Gethsemani Abbey, 1914

Thomas Merton made Gethsemani Abbey almost a byword in American Catholic life, but this Trappist...

October 21, 2010

New York City’s First Spanish-Speaking Parish

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE, NEW YORK CITY, FEBRUARY, 1902.— By the end of February, 1902,...

October 20, 2010

Roads to Rome: Father Clarence E. Woodman, C.S.P. (1852-1924)

Born in Maine, Clarence Eugene Woodman graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, and Amherst before studying...

October 19, 2010

“The Big Rock Versus the Little Rock”: Bishop Edward M. Fitzgerald (1833-1907)

Born in Ireland, Edward Mary Fitzgerald came to America as a teenager. At seventeen he...

October 18, 2010

Mother Aloysia Lowe, S.C. (1835-1889)

Maria Lowe was born in Brooklyn, but grew up in an orphanage in Cincinnati. At...

October 17, 2010

Nine Thousand Confessions at Paulist Mission in Brooklyn, 1891

“Thousands at a Mission: The Work Which Paulist Fathers Have Been Doing In BrooklynInteresting Services...

October 17, 2010

Catholic Poetry

THE SACRED HEART Adelaide A. Procter (1825-1864)What wouldst thou have, O soul,Thou weary soul?Lo! I...

October 17, 2010

Buffalo’s Maronite Catholics

When speaking of the Catholic Church’s Eastern Rites, the late Pope John Paul II often...

October 16, 2010

“A Loyal Disciple of the Saintly La Salle”: Brother Chrysostom, F.S.C. (1863-1917)

Joseph John Conlon was born in 1863 in New Haven, Connecticut, where he received his...

October 15, 2010

Treasures from the Treasure Chest

October 15, 2010

“They Went a Long Time without Seeing a Priest”

The first Catholic Church built in the State of New Jersey was St. John’s, Trenton,...

October 14, 2010

“A Life of Unceasing Toil in the Cause of Education and Religion”: Father Robert E.V. Rice, C.M. (1837-1878)

Born in Missouri, Robert Emmet Vincent Rice grew up on a farm near the Vincentian...

October 13, 2010

Lucy Eaton Smith (1845-1894): New York Socialite, Catholic Convert, Dominican Foundress

Lucy Eaton Smith was born to an affluent Manhattan family in 1845, raised Episcopalian, and...

October 13, 2010

Pope Leo XIII and the Rosary

Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) wrote more encyclicals than any other pontiff (including Pope John Paul...

October 12, 2010

Woodhaven Parish Turns One Hundred

St. Thomas The Apostle, Woodhaven, N.Y. — On April 1, 1908 property was bought for...

October 12, 2010

General Sherman’s Son: Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. (1856-1933)

Today marks the birth of Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of Civil War General William...

October 11, 2010

Blessed Pope John XXIII’s Feast Day

Over at America magazine, Father Jim Martin reminds us that today is the Feast of...

October 11, 2010

Quote of the Day

"The form of government in the United States is preferable to Catholics above other forms....

October 11, 2010

The Mayflower and the Santa Maria

From its humble beginnings in a New England church rectory in early 1882, the Knights...

October 11, 2010

St. Leonard’s School, Boston, 1914

The above photo shows students from St. Leonard’s School in Boston’s North End in 1914....

October 11, 2010

“Let Them Be Pelted and Trampled On”

While John Henry Newman was still an Anglican, he said of Catholic missionaries: “If they...

October 10, 2010

Catholic Poetry

CONSOLATION"It is I; be not afraid." WHEN I sink down in gloom or fear,Hope blighted...

October 09, 2010

The Church at Ground Zero

If history teaches us nothing else, it shows that we've been there before. As Thursday's...