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October 2009

October 31, 2009

Quote of the Day

The saints have ever been, are, and ever will be the greatest benefactors of society,...

October 31, 2009

College Football Photo of the Week

October 31, 2009

Catholic Art

William-Adolphe Bougereau, The Virgin With Angels, 1900.

October 31, 2009

St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (1532-1617)

Born in Segovia, Spain, the son of a wealthy merchant, he was studying with the...

October 31, 2009

Father Sorin, Notre Dame Founder

Today also marks the death of Father Edward F. Sorin (1814-1893), founder of the University...

October 31, 2009

Archbishop William Henry Elder (1819-1904)

Born in Maryland, he studied at Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, before pursuing seminary studies...

October 31, 2009

Archbishop John J. Cantwell (1874-1947)

Born in Limerick, Cantwell was the first of fifteen children. At a time when Ireland...

October 31, 2009

Sisters of Notre Dame Come to America, 1840

On this day in 1840, eight Sisters of Notre Dame from Namur, Belgium, came to...

October 30, 2009

Movie of the Week

The Reluctant Saint is a 1962 film which tells a somewhat fictionalized version of the...

October 30, 2009

Quote of the Day

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations,...

October 30, 2009

Monsignor John J. Burke, C.S.P. (1875-1936)

Born in New York City to immigrant parents, John Joseph Burke studied at the Jesuits’...

October 30, 2009

Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley (1894-1967)

Born in Cleveland, Joseph Patrick Hurley was ordained a priest in 1919. After a few...

October 30, 2009

“The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican”

Although he was born in Kiskeam, where his mother's family were from, in North Cork,...

October 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

The first law of history is not to dare to utter falsehood; the second, not...

October 29, 2009

Treasures from the Treasure Chest

October 29, 2009

“Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion”

On this day in 1884, during the presidential campaign, Reverend Dr. Samuel D. Burchard, addressing...

October 29, 2009

St. Gaetano Errico (1791-1860)

Born in Naples, Gaetano Errico entered the local diocesan seminary at age sixteen. In 1815,...

October 28, 2009

Quote of the Day

The whole happiness of man and even his sanity depend on his moral condition. And...

October 28, 2009

Old (Anti-)Catholic Stuff

This 1920’s ad is titled “Why I am a Klansman” Check out #’s 7 and...

October 28, 2009

Maurice Costello (1877-1950)

Born in Pittsburgh to Irish immigrant parents, Maurice Costello became one of America’s very first...

October 28, 2009

David Jones (1895-1974)

Today marks the death of the Catholic poet and artist David Jones. Born in a...

October 28, 2009

Father WiIfrid Parsons, S.J. (1887-1958)

Today marks the death of Father Wilfrid Parsons, S.J. (1887-1958), who served as editor-in-chief of...

October 27, 2009

Name that Nun

Does anyone know what community this Sister belongs to?

October 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation...

October 27, 2009

Old Catholic Stuff

This ad for clerical tailoring ran in a seminary yearbook during the 1930’s. (The Pfundstein...

October 27, 2009

The Radio Priest, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979)

There’s never been a priest as controversial as Father Charles Coughlin in American Catholic history....

October 27, 2009

Mother Rogers of Maryknoll (1882-1955)

Today in 1882, Mary Josephine Rogers was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Abraham T. Rogers...

October 26, 2009

Quote of the Day

Charity is the bond of brotherhood, the foundation of peace, the mainstay and security of...

October 26, 2009

Baseball Photo of the Week

St. Francis Preparatory School, Brooklyn, 1916.

October 26, 2009

Book of the Week

It’s a pretty hefty book (over 900 pages), but if you really want to know...