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June 2020

June 05, 2020

A House Divided: The American Bishops and the Civil War

A Hierarchy Divided As we mentioned earlier, some mainline Protestant Churches formally divided over the...

February 2019

February 04, 2019

“I No Longer Call You Slaves”: Race, Religion, and the Healy Brothers

By any standard, the Healys were an impressive family. Michael, the father, was an Irish...

January 2019

January 22, 2019

Who’s It Named For? Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy (1884-1956)

He has a college, a high school, and a retreat house named named for him:...

December 2018

December 28, 2018

Who’s It Named For? Corrigan Hall, Seton Hall University

As we travel around the nations's Catholic college campuses this week, we come to Seton...

November 2018

November 28, 2018

Catholics and the American Revolution

Introduction: The Sacred Heart Review was published out of Massachusetts between 1888 and 1918, covering Catholic...

November 27, 2018

From the Pulpit

From the Pulpit: Bishop John Loughlin, St. James Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn, New York, July 13, 1884....

November 20, 2018

“McNamara’s Vlog”: Race, Religion, and the Healy Brothers, 1830-1910

Friends, here is a video I created some time ago, which relates to Black Catholic...

November 02, 2014

Catholic Poetry: “Believe and Take Heart,” by John Lancaster Spalding

BELIEVE AND TAKE HEART By John Lancaster Spalding What can console for a dead world?...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Blog Bishop of the Week: Ignatius A. Reynolds, Charleston, South Carolina (1798-1855)

Ignatius Aloysius Reynolds was born near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 22, 1798, of one of the...

June 2014

June 29, 2014

The Dakotas’ First Bishop: Martin Marty, O.S.B. (1834-1896)

VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF DAKOTA: RIGHT REV. MARTIN MARTY, O.S.B. First Vicar Apostolic of Dakota. Martin...

June 05, 2014

Throwback Thursday Photograph!

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

May 2014

May 28, 2014

A Tribute to Catholic Sisters, 1899

A PRIEST’S TRIBUTE TO NUNS. Mgr. Conaty’s Sermon at the Georgetown Convent. (The New York...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

Bishop Thomas Galberry, O.S.A., Hartford, Connecticut (1833-1878)

RIGHT REV. THOMAS GALBERRY, O.S.A., Fourth Bishop of Hartford Thomas Galberry first saw the light...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Montana’s First Bishop Recounts Audience with Pope Leo XIII, 1890

“Bishop Brondel in Rome,” The Tablet, June 7, 1890 SIR,— I wish to communicate to...

November 08, 2013

Bishop Arrested in Civil War Mississippi, 1864

MOST REV. WILLIAM HENRY ELDER Third Bishop of Natchez Second Archbishop of Cincinnati William Henry...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Bishop Jean Claude Neraz, San Antonio, Texas (1828-1894)

RIGHT REV. J.C. NERAZ, Second Bishop of San Antonio J.C. Neraz was born on the...

August 14, 2013

Connecticut’s First Bishop: William Tyler (1806-1849)

William Tyler was born on the 5th of June, 1806, at Derby, Vermont, his father...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Bishop Ignatius Persico, O.F.M. Cap. (1823-1896), Savannah, Georgia

Fourth Bishop of Savannah Ignatius Persico was born in Naples on the 30th of January...

June 2013

June 30, 2013

Archbishop John Hughes’ Sermon at the Dedication of St. Paul the Apostle Church, Manhattan, 1859

SERMON ON THE OCCASION OF LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE MISSIONARY HOUSE AND CHURCH OF...

June 18, 2013

Virginia’s First Bishop: Patrick Kelly (1820-1822)

VIRGINIA’S FIRST BISHOP Right Rev. Patrick Kelly. First Bishop of Richmond, A.D. 1820 Bishop...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

The Convert Brothers: General and Bishop Rosecrans

Born at Kingston, Ohio, 6 Sept., 1819; died near Redondo, California 11 March, 1898. The...

February 2013

February 10, 2013

First American Bishop Eulogizes President Washington, 1800

Bishop John Carroll’s Eulogy on the Death of President Washington, February 22nd, 1800 When the...

February 09, 2013

America’s First Italian Bishop: Joseph Rosati, C.M. (1789-1843)

RIGHT REV. JOSEPH ROSATI, First Bishop of St. Louis Joseph Rosati was born at Sora,...

January 2013

January 20, 2013

Quote of the Day, from Bishop John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916)

January 20 To become an ethical fact, to have moral worth, knowledge must pass into...

January 05, 2013

St. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860)

FIRST AMERICAN SOON TO BE PLACED, AFTER YEARS OF SOLICITATION BU U.S. CATHOLICS, IN THE...

January 02, 2013

Archbishop John J. Kain, St. Louis (1841-1903)

DIOCESE OF WHEELING. RIGHT REV. JOHN J. KAIN, Bishop of Wheeling. John J. Kain was...

November 2012

November 29, 2012

Bishop John Moore, St. Augustine, Florida (1834-1901)

MOORE, JOHN, R.C. Bishop, was born in Castletown-Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland, June 24, 1834. In...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

Lecture on the Church and Western Civilzation, New York, 1866

THE CHURCH THE CIVILIZER OF THE NATIONS. Lecture by the Most Reverend M.J. Spalding, Catholic...

July 2012

July 29, 2012

A Sermon by Archbishop John Hughes, Brooklyn, 1853

Sermon on the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Church of Our Lady of Immaculate...

July 22, 2012

“True National Honor”: A Sermon by Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921)

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. "CHRIST THE ONLY ENDURING NAME IN HISTORY AND THE GREAT REFORMER...