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January 2019

January 24, 2019

St. Joseph‘s School for the Deaf Celebrates 150 Years in the Bronx

In the Fall of 1869, in the Bronx’s then-rural Fordham section, a girls’ academy opened...

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 29, 2018

Three Giants of Brooklyn Catholicism

On this day in three separate years, three significant figures in the early history of...

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...

December 19, 2018

Who’s Buried in Catholic Cemeteries: Mayor William R. Grace (1832-1904)

Michael Bloomberg wasn't the first New York Mayor to learn Spanish. That distinction belongs to...

December 08, 2018

Brooklyn College Dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, 1915

Right Rev. George W. Mundelein, "New Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception," The Brooklyn Eagle, September 7,...

December 05, 2018

Brooklyn Catholic Architect Receives Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal, 1884

Patrick C. Keely Receives Laetare Medal, March 30, 1884, The Catholic Review, April 5, 1884 The...

November 2014

November 06, 2014

Catholics in the Movies: Pedro de Cordoba (1881-1950)

Born in New York City to a French mother and a Cuban father, Pedro de...

November 04, 2014

Catholics in Public Service: Senator Francis Kernan, New York (1816-1892)

As Americans go to the polls today, we profile the first Catholic to represent New...

October 2014

October 04, 2014

Franciscans Found New York City’s First Italian Parish, 1866

St. Anthony of Padua, New York, New York (1866) THERE can be little doubt but...

September 2014

September 17, 2014

An African-American Woman Writes to Pope Pius IX, 1853

New York, October 29th, 1863 Most Holy Father Visible Head of the Church of Jesus...

August 2014

August 17, 2014

Who’s Buried in Catholic Cemeteries: Mayor Hugh J. Grant (1858-1910)

Born in New York City on September 10, 1858, Hugh J. Grant grew up in...

July 2014

July 14, 2014

Catholics on Stage: Fritz Williams (1865-1930)

Williams, Fritz (Frederick Williams): Actor; b. in Boston, Mass., August 23, 1865; parents member at...

July 10, 2014

Father William Starrs, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York (1807-1873)

Very Rev. William Starrs, D.D. (The New York Times, February 7, 1873) Very Rev. William...

July 06, 2014

Who’s Buried in Catholic Cemeteries: Annie Moore (1874-1924)

Born in County Cork, Ireland, on April 24, 1874, Annie Moore was the first immigrant to...

July 05, 2014

Brooklyn Widow Enters Carmelite Monastery, 1916

Mrs. J. Delehanty is Carmelite Nun. Former Miss Monahan of Brooklyn, Now a Widow, Joins...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Mission to Non-Catholics, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1904

NON-CATHOLIC MISSIONS BY APOSTOLATE FATHERS. They Strive to Remove Wrong Notions Regarding Catholic Dogma and...

June 24, 2014

St. John the Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York (1868)

During Bishop John Loughlin's administration, there were but two religious communities of priests in the...

June 17, 2014

Catholics on Stage: Arnold Daly (1875-1927)

Born Peter Christopher Arnold Daly to Irish parents, the young man grew up in Brooklyn,...

June 12, 2014

Peter S. Munro, Catholic School Teacher, Civil War Veteran

MUNRO, Peter Simcoe Morton, actor, author and lecturer, was born in York, England, Feb. 17,...

June 10, 2014

Controversial Catholic Editor James A. McMaster Dies, 1886

JAMES A. M’MASTER DEAD. CAREER OF THE NOTED CATHOLIC EDITOR CLOSED. THE MAN WHO FOR...

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

“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...

May 2014

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 29, 2014

St. Francis Xavier College Entrance Requirements, 1899

The College of St. Francis Xavier was founded in 1847 by the Jesuits in Manhattan....

May 27, 2014

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Regina Theresa Sherwood, Long Island, New York (1848-1933)

Regina Theresa Sherwood was for many years closely aligned with religion, education and charity in...