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December 2011

December 08, 2011

The Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Fourteenth Street (1855)

CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. EAST FOURTEENTH STREET. IN view of the increasing number of...

December 07, 2011

Marchioness Ellen McLaughlin (1829-1915), Brooklyn, New York

MRS. HUGH McLAUGHLIN Democratic Leader’s Widow, Made a Marchioness, Dies at 85The New York Times,...

December 06, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's column at Patheos focuses on an Irish-born women who founded the Dominican Sisters...

December 05, 2011

Father Joseph Still (1849-1907), Quincy, Illinois

REV. JOSEPH STILL Rest now is yours, O noble priest, Your work you've done, and...

November 2011

November 27, 2011

Sermon, First Sunday of Advent, St. Paul the Apostle Church, Manhattan, ca. 1876

SERMON FOR THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENTEPISTLE. Romans xiii. 11-14. Brethren: Know that it is...

November 26, 2011

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Patrick O’Neil, Bronx, New York

PATRICK J. O'NEIL, who for a number of years has been active in Bronx real...

November 25, 2011

Sisters of the Most Holy Family of Nazareth (1885)

IN 1875, Mary Frances Siedliska, a distinguished Polish woman of noble qualities and rare virtues,...

November 20, 2011

Catholic Poetry

HYMN TO THE CHURCH.WHO is she that stands triumphant, A rock in strength upon the...

November 19, 2011

Bishop Charles E. McDonnell, Brooklyn, New York (1854-1921)

McDONNELL, Charles Edward, R. C. Bishop of Brooklyn, was born in New York City. February...

November 15, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features the story of Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin, a "free woman...

November 14, 2011

Commander John F. Luby, U.S. Navy (1859-1911)

Catholic Officers in the Army and Navy.Senior Lieutenant John F. Luby, U.S.N. Lieutenant John F....

November 13, 2011

Catholic Poetry

Father Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C. (1814-1893)IN MEMORY OF THE VERY REV. EDWARD SORINBy Maurice Francis...

November 05, 2011

St. Raymond, the Bronx’s First Catholic Church (1842)

St. Raymond, Westchester, Bronx, New York, N.Y.—The earliest indication of a parish being erected in...

November 01, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features Edgar Allan Poe and his relationship with the Jesuits at...

October 2011

October 31, 2011

Father Leo Rizzo da Saracena, O.F.M. (1833-1897), Civil War Chaplain

The Very Rev. Leo de Saracena. The New York Times, November 5, 1897A dispatch from...

October 30, 2011

The Brothers of the Holy Infancy, Buffalo, New York (1855)

CONGREGATION OF THE BROTHERS OF THE HOLY INFANCY AND YOUTH OF JESUS Founded in the...

October 29, 2011

Bishop Winand M. Wigger, Newark, New Jersey (1841-1901)

WIGGER. Winand Michael, third Roman Catholic bishop of Newark, was born in New York City,...

October 28, 2011

“Some Exemplary Women” of Montana

Some Exemplary Women of MontanaThey were not born nor reared up in Montana, but they...

October 27, 2011

Father Eugene Donnelly, St. Michael’s Church, Flushing, New York

FATHER EUGENE J. DONNELLY, A. B., A. M. It is with pleasure that we recount...

October 26, 2011

Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart (1876)

In May, 1876, when the Kulturkampf drove their community from the Duchy of Baden, Mother...

October 25, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column focuses on Venerable Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853), the only layperson buried in...

October 24, 2011

The Fighting McMahons

CATHOLIC OFFICERS IN THE ARMY AND THE NAVY.CAPTAIN JOHN E. McMAHON, U.S.A. Captain McMahon is...

October 23, 2011

Catholic Poetry

MAGDALENE IN THE DESERTBy Aubrey de Vere SAY, who that woman kneeling soleAmid yon desert...

October 19, 2011

The Sister Servants of Mary (1892)

SISTERS SERVANTS OF MARYIntroduced into the United States, 1892 THIS branch, or offshoot, of the...

October 18, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's column at Patheos focuses on the work of the French Jesuit missionaries in...

October 17, 2011

Civil War Veteran Becomes Priest

Rev. EDWARD A. TERRY, LL.D. Rev. Edward A. Terry, LL.D., was born in Ardmore, Ireland,...

October 16, 2011

Catholic Poetry

JUBILEE OF AMERICAN FREEDOM.By Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864) Great Lord of creation, we owe it...

October 15, 2011

Bishop Nicholas A. Gallagher, Galveston, Texas (1846-1918)

GALLAGHER, Nicholas Aloysius, third R.C. bishop of Galveston, Tex., was born at Temperanceville, Belmont co.,...

October 14, 2011

Catholic Authors: Anna Elizabeth Buchanan (1836-?)

ANNA ELIZABETH BUCHANAN is known as a writer of magazine articles and short stories of...

October 13, 2011

Father Honoratus Bourion, Menominee, Michigan (1840-1902)

The subject of this sketch was born in the diocese of St. Die, France, June...