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November 2010

November 04, 2010

Boston’s Polish Parish: Our Lady of Czestochowa (1893)

THE POLISH CHURCH AND CONGREGATIONIt is claimed that there are about 2,000,000 Poles in the...

November 03, 2010

Roads to Rome: Maria Longworth Storer (1849-1932)

Maria Longworth Storer (1849-1932) came from a wealthy family in Cincinnati. In 1871 she founded...

November 02, 2010

Benjamin J. Keiley (1847-1925): Confederate Soldier, Catholic Bishop

During the American Civil War, two future bishops served as military chaplains, Fathers John Ireland...

November 01, 2010

Quote of the Day

Every saint is a little looking-glass of God: a facet of the jewel which constitutes...

November 01, 2010

Religious Profession at Long Island Convent, 1900

Bishop McDonnell Administers the Vows to New Sisters of St. DominicAT AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.Work That...

October 2010

October 31, 2010

All Hallows College, Ireland (1842)

During the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced what historian Emmett Larkin calls a “devotional revolution.” Beginning...

October 31, 2010

Sunday Sermons

“EAST NEW YORK CATHOLIC CHURCH:Sermon by Father Carroll”The Brooklyn Eagle, June 20, 1870The Rev. Father...

October 31, 2010

Catholic Poetry

THE ANGELUSCharles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)At dawn, the joyful choir of bellsIn consecrated citadels,Flings on the...

October 30, 2010

College Football Photo of the Week

The Boston College Football Team, as seen in 1912.

October 30, 2010

A Franciscan on the Beach: The Rev. Joseph Brunneman, O.F.M. Conv. (1822-1874)

By Monsignor Sean G. OgleThe Conventual Franciscans are one of the three major branches of...

October 29, 2010

Newark’s Benedictine Monastery

The Benedictines are a contemplative order with a strong missionary tradition going back to the...

October 28, 2010

New York City’s First African-American Parish

ST. BENEDICT THE MOOR, Manhattan, New York, N.Y.—The Mission of St. Benedict the Moor was...

October 27, 2010

Roads to Rome: General Eliakim P. Scammon (1816-1894)

Born in Maine, Eliakim Parker Scammon was raised in a Methodist family, we are told,...

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