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December 2010

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...

November 17, 2010

Roads to Rome: The Oxford Movement (1833-1845)

During the early 1830’s a movement began in the Church of England known as the...

November 16, 2010

“In the Shadow of a Saint”: Archbishop James F. Wood of Philadelphia (1813-1883)

James Frederick Wood, Philadelphia’s first native-born bishop, has been overshadowed by his predecessor, St. John...

November 15, 2010

“Between Two Worlds”: Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, I.H.M. (1810-1892)

In The History of Black Catholics in the United States (1990), Father Cyprian Davis writes:The...

November 14, 2010

Catholic Poetry

THE MISSIONARYBy Robert Southey (1774-1843)Behold him on his way! The BreviaryWhich from his girdle hangs,...

November 14, 2010

Sunday Sermons

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: ITS ORIGIN; ITS CONSTITUTION; ITS ATTRIBUTES AND PREROGATIVES WHAT does the Catholic...

November 13, 2010

College Football Photo of the Week

The Fordham University football team, as seen in the early 1900's.

November 13, 2010

Quote of the Day

"If anyone says you love darkness, point to your colleges. Was it the love of...

November 12, 2010

Brooklyn’s French Parish: St. Louis of France (1869)

St. Louis, Brooklyn, N.Y. — On July 18, 1869, Bishop Loughlin laid the cornerstone of...

November 11, 2010

“The Blue, the Gray, and the Black”: The Paulists and the American Civil War

On May 25, 1872, three young men, members of the Paulist community, were ordained priests...

November 10, 2010

Roads to Rome: Governor Peter H. Burnett (1807-1895)

I was once a Protestant, and I became a Catholic.My parents were Baptists; but until...

November 09, 2010

Bishop Maurice F. Burke and Wyoming Catholicism

Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1845, Maurice Francis Burke grew up in Chicago. After graduating...

November 08, 2010

“A Miracle on American Soil”: Grand Couteau, 1866

The Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Couteau, Louisiana is one of America’s oldest...

November 07, 2010

Sunday Sermons

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. DIGNITY AND DUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN. "Whose image and inscription is...

November 07, 2010

Catholic Poetry

WHY THE ROBIN'S BREAST WAS REDJames Ryder Randall (1839-1908) The Saviour, bowed beneath His cross,...

November 06, 2010

College Football Photo of the Week

This 1924 programme is from the Army -Notre Dame game, a long-standing college football rivalry....

November 06, 2010

A Frenchman in “The Fighting 69th”: Father Thomas Ouellet, S.J. (1819-1894)

Born in Canada, Thomas Ouellet studied for the diocesan priesthood in Montreal before joining the...

November 05, 2010

A Life Apart: The Carthusians of Vermont

Founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084, the Carthusians are unique among the religious...