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March 2009

March 17, 2009

A Day to Celebrate Evangelization

St. Patrick’s Day is really a day to celebrate evangelization. And as Father Sylvester Malone...

March 17, 2009

Some “Modest Proposals” for St. Patrick’s Day

Monsignor William McGuirl (1859-1933) was Pastor of St. Joseph’s Church on Pacific Street in Brooklyn...

March 17, 2009

Brooklyn’s First Mass

There’s a long debate over when the first Mass was celebrated in Brooklyn. There is...

March 16, 2009

Vince Lombardi, High School Basketball Star

It's ironic to think that the man most closely associated with American football, Vince Lombardi,...

March 16, 2009

Mary Kenney, Irish-American Labor Organizer

Women’s History Month gives us the chance to highlight another important albeit overlooked female who...

March 16, 2009

St. Clement Hofbauer, C.Ss.R. (1751-1820)

Today is the Feast of St. Clement Maria Hofbauer (1751-1820), Redemptorist and Patron Saint of...

March 15, 2009

America’s First Cardinal

Today in 1875 marks the day that John McCloskey (1810-1885) became the first American Cardinal....

March 15, 2009

Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, Puerto Rican Man of the Year

Today marks the death of Father Joseph P. Fitzpatrick (1913-1995), Jesuit sociologist and advocate for...

March 15, 2009

Father Kino, Pioneer Jesuit

Today marks the death of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711), Jesuit missionary in northwest Mexico...

March 14, 2009

“Spiritually we are all Semites.”

Today in 1937 marks the day that Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical condemning Nazi...

March 14, 2009

Elizabeth Seton becomes a Catholic

Today marks the day in 1805 that Elizabeth Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was received into the...

March 14, 2009

James Martin Gillis, Paulist

Today marks the death of James Martin Gillis (1876-1957), priest, editor, and author. Born in...

March 13, 2009

The Many Faces of St. Patrick

There's no doubt that St. Patrick is one of the most frequently depicted saints in...

March 13, 2009

The Jesuit College in Brooklyn

This 1907 drawing illustrates better than anything else the ambitions that Jesuits had for their...

March 13, 2009

Leonora Barry: America’s First Woman Labor Activist

As Women's History Month continues, we take time to recognize a woman who made some...

March 13, 2009

Protestant Paranoia: The American Protective Association

Today in 1887 marks the founding of the American Protective Association, an anti-Catholic organization that...

March 12, 2009

Future St. Louis Cardinal…

Sacred College, that is! This photograph from the 1922 Cathedral Preparatory Seminary yearbook shows a...

March 12, 2009

Caroline Gleason, Labor Activist and Nun

As Women’s History Month continues, The Oregon Catholic Sentinel highlights the story of a woman...

March 12, 2009

“The Great Hunger”: The Irish Famine (1845-1849)

The potato blight that struck Ireland in 1845 was a fungus known as Phytophthera infestans....

March 12, 2009

“A Cross between a businessman and a nightclub entertainer”

Today marks the death of Robert I. Gannon (1892-1978), Jesuit educator and university president. From...

March 11, 2009

General William S. Rosecrans (1819-1898)

Today marks the death of General William Starke Rosecrans (1819-1898), Civil War general and Catholic...

March 11, 2009

Pius Parsch and the Liturgical Movement

Today in 1954 marks the death of Pius Parsch, Czech priest and liturgist. Born in...

March 11, 2009

Catholic Near East Welfare Association Founded Today

Today in 1926 marks the founding of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), a...

March 10, 2009

J.V. Huntington (1815-1862), Pioneer Catholic Novelist

This day in 1862 marks the death of Jedediah V. Huntington: medical doctor, teacher, Episcopal...

March 10, 2009

St. Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817-1898)

Today marks the Feast of St. Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817-1898), foundress of the Sisters of...

March 10, 2009

Triple Consecration at Old St. Pat’s

On this day in 1844, in Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manahattan, three priests working...

March 09, 2009

Leo XIII First Pope Filmed

Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) was a pontiff of many accomplishments, not the least of which...

March 09, 2009

Mary Julia Workman (1871-1964)

Women’s History Month makes this a good time to mention the life and work of...

March 09, 2009

St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn

This 1916 poster advertises Long Island’s first Catholic women’s college. That Fall St. Joseph’s College...

March 09, 2009

The Bishop who started the National Shrine

Today in 1932 marks the death of Bishop Thomas J. Shahan (1857-1932), fourth Rector of...