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December 06, 2009

Christmas Music

December 06, 2009

Catholic Poetry

TRYSTE NOELBy Louise Imogen GuineyThe Ox he openeth wide the doore,And from the snow he...

December 06, 2009

Quote of the Day

To us Christians, the first Christmas Day is the solstice or bottle-neck of history. Things...

December 06, 2009

Blessed Adolph Kolping (1813-1865)

Adolph Kolping was a German Catholic priest. Kolping grew up as the son of a...

December 05, 2009

Christmas Music

December 05, 2009

Quote of the Day

The Word of God, Jesus Christ, on account of His great love for mankind, became...

December 05, 2009

Catholic Art

I'm sorry to say that I haven't been able to find any information on this...

December 05, 2009

College Football

December 05, 2009

Joe Breen and the Movies

Born in Philadelphia and educated by the Jesuits, Joseph Ignatius Breen (1888-1965) was a journalist...

December 05, 2009

Scots College Founded in Rome, 1600

The Pontifical Scots College, Rome was founded on 5th December 1600 by Pope Clement VIII....

December 04, 2009

Christmas Music

December 04, 2009

Quote of the Day

To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that...

December 04, 2009

Movie of the Week

Jesus of Nazareth is a 1977 Anglo-Italian television miniseries dramatizing the birth, life, ministry, death,...

December 04, 2009

Council of Trent Ends, 1563

On this day in 1563, the Council of Trent ended after eighteen years. Considered to...

December 04, 2009

Romanian Diocese Founded 1982

On this day in 1982, Pope John Paul II established the Apostolic Exarchate for Romanian...

December 04, 2009

St. John Calabria (1873-1954)

Born to a poor family in Verona, he served in the military before completing his...

December 04, 2009

Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642)

A bright child, Armand-Jean du Plessis studied theology as a teen and at the young...

December 04, 2009

Mary Agnes Tincker (1833-1907)

Novelist, born at Ellsworth, Maine, 18 July, 1833; died at Boston, Massachusetts, 4 December, 1907....

December 04, 2009

Mother Mary Frances Clarke (1803-1887)

Mary Frances Clarke was the foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin...

December 03, 2009

Christmas Music

December 03, 2009

Quote of the Day

What we are in fact celebrating is the awe-inspiring humility of God, and no amount...

December 03, 2009

Treasures from the Treasure Chest

December 03, 2009

Encylical Issued in 1880

On this day in 1880, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Sancta Dei Civitas, on...

December 03, 2009

Byzantine Eparchy of Van Nuys Founded 1981

Today marks the founding of the Byzantine Eparchy of Van Nuys, California, in 1981. The...

December 03, 2009

Daniel A. Rudd (1854-1933)

There’s never been a newspaper quite like The American Catholic Tribune, an independent Catholic newspaper...

December 03, 2009

Father Francis X. Talbot, S.J. (1889-1953)

Born in Philadelphia, Francis Xavier Talbot (seen above on the right) joined the Jesuits after...

December 03, 2009

St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

Considered by many to be the greatest missionary since Saint Paul, Francis Xavier was born...

December 02, 2009

Christmas Music

December 02, 2009

Quote of the Day

You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother; you cannot in common life approach...

December 02, 2009

Old (Anti-) Catholic Stuff