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June 2014

June 07, 2014

Roads to Rome: Sarah Worthington King Peter (1800-1877)

Born in Ohio, Sarah Worthington was the daughter of a prominent Ohio politician. During her...

June 06, 2014

Catholic History in Less Than 5 Minutes– The Age of Constantine (313-337)

June 06, 2014

The “Bogus Knights of Columbus Oath”

The Knights of Columbus is organized into four degrees of membership, the fourth being the...

June 06, 2014

Remembering the Fallen: Lt. Robert P. Mathias, D-Day, June 6, 1944

In his outstanding history of D-Day, Stephen Ambrose describes the conditions that Second Lieutenant Robert Mathias...

June 05, 2014

Catholic History in Less Than 5 Minutes– A New Feature– The Early Church (30-313 A.D.)

Youtube, like the internet in general, can be a force for great good, maybe even be...

June 05, 2014

Throwback Thursday Photograph!

Is it just me, or does Father William George McCloskey look suspiciously like Stephen Colbert?...

June 05, 2014

St. Boniface Church, Brooklyn (1854)

Rev. John Stephen Raffeiner of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, at that...

June 04, 2014

Manhattan College– A Visual History

June 04, 2014

A Tribute to Fordham, My Alma Mater

June 04, 2014

Catholics in the Movies: Allan Dwan (1885-1981)

A surprising number of Hollywood’s greatest directors were Catholic, including John Ford, Raoul Walsh and...

June 04, 2014

A Poetic Tribute to the Jesuits

June 04, 2014

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Dr. John Daniel Sullivan, Our Lady of Victory Church, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Dr. Sullivan, one of the most...

June 03, 2014

“The Teresian Contemplative,” A Poem by Robert Hugh Benson, on Youtube

June 03, 2014

My Book Available for Pre-Order on Amazon!

Amazon has just posted the cover of my new book on its website: New York...

June 03, 2014

A Meditation by John Henry Newman

June 03, 2014

Lacordaire’s Prayer for Priests

June 03, 2014

“Living Catholic Authors: Miss Margaret Kenna,” The Catholic World (December 1897): 422-423.

Miss Margaret Kenna, daughter of the late Senator John Edward Kenna, who died January 7,...

June 03, 2014

A Baltimore Seminary Professor: Father Louis Regis Deluol, S.S. (1787-1858)

Founded in 1641 in France by Jean Jacques Olier, the Society of St. Sulpice (S.S.)...

June 02, 2014

A Photographic Survey of the 19th Century American Priest on Youtube

June 02, 2014

My First Youtube Video– Catholics and the American Civil War

June 02, 2014

Mother Austin Carroll, R.S.M. (1835-1909)

Mother Austin Carroll, authoress of the Life of Mother Mc Cauley, Leaves of the Annals...

June 02, 2014

First Catholic Priest Ordained in the United States, 1793

June is traditionally the month when most ordinations to the priesthood take place. For that...

June 02, 2014

Former Know-Nothing Converts to Catholicism

The Order of the Star Spangled Banner was founded in New York in 1849 in...

June 01, 2014

Catholic Sermons: “Holy Mass a Treasure” (1912)

In further considering the First Commandment of the Church it is to be noted that...

June 01, 2014

Who’s Buried in Catholic Cemeteries: “Nonpareil” Dempsey (1862-1895)

Born John Edward Kelly in County Kildare, Ireland, he was known in boxing circles...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Catholic Poetry: “Our Lady of the May” by J. Corson Miller

Our Lady of the May By J. Corson Miller Hail, thou thrice-glorious Queen of...

May 31, 2014

Parish Mission for Deaf Catholics, 1899

The New York Mission to Deaf Mutes By Rev. Joseph Rockwell, S.J. The Woodstock Letters,...

May 30, 2014

Catholics on Stage: Blanche Walsh (1873-1915)

This popular favorite has made herself a prominent place among the actresses whose forte is...

May 30, 2014

Queens Parish First One Named for St. Joan of Arc, 1920

CHURCH OF ST. JOAN OF ARC. Parish at Jackson Heights First in America to be...

May 30, 2014

Roads to Rome: U.S. Army Officer Enters the Church, 1909

Georginia Pell Curtis's 1909 anthology Some Roads to Rome offers a series of first-hand accounts...