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April 2011

April 28, 2011

The Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas

MOUNT ST. SCHOLASTICA CONVENT, ATCHISON, KAN. Mount St. Scholastica’s is the older of the two...

April 27, 2011

A Guest Column at YIM Catholic

This week, I did a guest column for Frank Weathers' great blog YIM Catholic, on...

April 27, 2011

Archbishop Thomas E. Molloy (1884-1956), Bishop of Brooklyn

RIGHT REV. THOMAS E. MOLLOY, Bishop of Brooklyn, when thirty-six years of age, was consecrated...

April 26, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column features an 1876 Easter sermon at St. Paul the Apostle Church,...

April 25, 2011

Professor Edward A. Scott (1829-1898): “Irish, Catholic, Confederate”

Edward A. Scott was born in Ireland and came to America at age fourteen. He...

April 24, 2011

A Poem for Easter

Drawing by Pat McNamara, 1992To Pius X at Easter John Hazard Wildman (1911-1992) Pius, the...

April 23, 2011

From the Question Box: “Here Comes Everybody!”

“Is not your Church the only Church that does not demand moral character as a...

April 22, 2011

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence…

THE TWELFTH STATION Jesus dies upon the Cross V. Adoramus te, Christe, et benedicimus tibi....

April 22, 2011

Seven Churches Visited on Holy Thursday: Lowell, Massachusetts (1894)

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES. DEVOUT WORSHIPPERS VISIT REPOSITORIES IN CHURCHES.Commemoration of the Day of the Crucifixion...

April 21, 2011

Blessed Sacrament Church, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn (1891)

BLESSED SACRAMENT, Brooklyn, N.Y. — To relieve the overcrowding of St. Malachy's due to the...

April 20, 2011

Anti-Catholicism on Film, 1911

This 1912 photograph was taken in front of St. Patrick's rectory, Huntington, during the 25th...

April 19, 2011

Missionary of the Passion: Father James Kent Stone, C.P. (1840-1921)

Father James Kent Stone, C.P., in his Passionist habit, as seen in the early 1880's....

April 18, 2011

How to Hear Women’s Confessions, From an 1897 Manual

Confessions of Women. A dangerous rock which the priest encounters in the stormy sea of...

April 17, 2011

Palm Sunday Sermon, St. Paul the Apostle Church, Manhattan, 1870’s

"Behold thy King cometh to thee meek." ST. MATT. xxi. 5. THROUGH humility and suffering...

April 15, 2011

School Play, St. James Academy, Brooklyn, 1856

St. James Academy, downtown Brooklyn, as seen in the late 1800's. This school for boys...

April 14, 2011

Convert and Poet: Mary Ann Spooner (1794-1877)

MRS. MARY ANN SPOONER.Mrs. Mary Ann Spooner, the daughter of Prosper Wetmore and Catharine McEwen,...

April 13, 2011

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Martin Ibert, Brooklyn, New York

MARTIN IBERT.A man of commanding presence in the Williamsburg and Bushwick sections of Brooklyn, Mr....

April 12, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos article focuses on Mother Theodore Williams (1868-1931), foundress of the Franciscan Handmaids...

April 11, 2011

A Jesuit Writes from Gallipoli, 1915

OUR ARMY CHAPLAINS’ EXPERIENCES.FATHER F. DEVAS, GALLIPOLI. Letters and Notices No. CXCII (January 1916): 323-326.On...

April 09, 2011

“The Great Romish Conspiracy”

THE AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.It is not to be wondered at that the ceaseless efforts and...

April 08, 2011

Bishop Andrew Byrne and Arkansas Catholicism, 1843-1862

Bishop Andrew Byrne (1802-1862)For many years, Father Eugene Weibel rode his horse Rocinante (named for...

April 07, 2011

The Goette Brothers: Catholic America’s First China Missionaries

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Maryknoll, the first American religious order founded for...

April 06, 2011

“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Mary Onahan Gallery, Chicago

LIVING CATHOLIC AUTHORSThe Catholic World (August 1897): 712-713. MISS MARY JOSEPHINE ONAHAN is one of...

April 04, 2011

Ukrainian Sisters Celebrate Centennial

Sisters of St. Basil the Great (1911)Fox Chase, Pennsylvania Laboring among the Ukrainian Greek Catholic...

April 02, 2011

Monsignor James V. Lewis (1875-1916), St. Francis de Sales Church, Manhattan

RECTOR FOLLOWS FATHER IN DEATH.Mgr. J.V. Lewis of St. Francis de Sales Church Contracted Pneumonia...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

The Pope’s Army Comes to New York, 1868

Founded in 1785, St. Peter's Church was the first Roman Catholic church erected in the...

March 29, 2011

This Week’s Column at Patheos

This week's Patheos column focuses on Dorothy Day (1897-1980), founder of the Catholic Worker. Never...

March 28, 2011

“An Artist in Burnt Cork”: Brother Martin Whelan, S.J. (1837-1903)

The Jesuit Brother's vocation is one with a rich history of service and scholarship. But...

March 27, 2011

Corporate Greed Attacked from Pulpit, 1900

PULPIT ATTACK ON TRUSTS.Money Power, Father Ducey Says, Has Become Tyranny.Attempts, the Priest Declares, to...

March 25, 2011

“Do Catholics Make Better Athletes?”

The Loyola University baseball team, 1886. Founded in Chicago in 1870, today Loyola is the...