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2014-06-29T06:54:00-06:00

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The Dakotas’ First Bishop: Martin Marty, O.S.B. (1834-1896)

Last updated on: June 29, 2014 at 6:54 am By Pat McNamara

VICARIATE APOSTOLIC OF DAKOTA: RIGHT REV. MARTIN MARTY, O.S.B. First Vicar Apostolic of Dakota. Martin Marty was born at Schwyz in Switzerland, on the 12th of January 1834, and entering in youth, the great Benedictine abbey of Einsiedlen, made his profession on the 20th of May 1855. The young monk had already pursued his theological studies with such zeal and talent, that the next year he was ordained on the 14th of September. A colony of monks from Einsiedlen was... Read more

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2014-06-26T11:10:40-06:00

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Monsignor Dennis J. Flynn, Mount St. Mary’s College and Seminary, Emmitsburg (1856-1911)

Last updated on: June 26, 2014 at 11:10 am By Pat McNamara

Rt. Rev. Mgr. Dennis J. Flynn, LL. D., was born near Louisville, Ky., Sept. 17, 1856, and, having made his preliminary studies in the parochial schools and St. Xavier’s Institute of that city, he went to Mt. St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Md. The college course completed, he studied theology in the seminary department of the same institution and he was ordained for the diocese of Wilmington, by Rt. Rev. Thomas A. Becker, in St. Peter’s Cathedral of that diocese, June... Read more

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2014-06-25T08:03:22-06:00

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Mission to Non-Catholics, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1904

Last updated on: June 25, 2014 at 8:03 am By Pat McNamara

NON-CATHOLIC MISSIONS BY APOSTOLATE FATHERS. They Strive to Remove Wrong Notions Regarding Catholic Dogma and Practices. READY TO ANSWER ALL QUERIES. Many Catholic Communities of Missionary Priests and Brothers and Sisters in Brooklyn. (The Brooklyn Eagle, November 1, 1904, p. 9.) The non-Catholic missions conducted under the auspices of the Apostolate Fathers form one of the most important features of the auxiliary work being carried on by the Catholic Church in this country. Very few, even among Catholics, know anything... Read more

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2014-06-24T07:42:52-06:00

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St. John the Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York (1868)

Last updated on: June 24, 2014 at 7:42 am By Pat McNamara

During Bishop John Loughlin’s administration, there were but two religious communities of priests in the Diocese of Brooklyn. The first to gain admittance were the priests of the Congregation of the Mission. In the spring of 1868, Rev. Edward M. Smith of that congregation came to Brooklyn to open a new field for the special work of his community. He secured an entire block of ground bounded by Lewis, Stuyvesant and Willoughby Avenues, and Hart Street, 600 feet by 200... Read more

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2014-06-23T06:00:53-06:00

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Catholic History in Less Than Five Minutes: East-West Church Relations in the Early Middle Ages

Last updated on: June 23, 2014 at 6:00 am By Pat McNamara

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2014-06-22T08:25:36-06:00

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Feast of Corpus Christi, a Sermon by Father Francis X. Weninger, S.J., 1882

Last updated on: June 22, 2014 at 8:25 am By Pat McNamara

FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI. “This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us be glad and rejoice therein.” — Psalm cxvii, 24. THE Church, on this day of jubilee, loves to call her children to the house of God, from which they go forth with hymns of praise and prayers in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, which is borne, under a richly ornamented canopy, by one of the Lord’s anointed ministers, to the altars erected by the faithful,... Read more

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2014-06-21T05:57:24-06:00

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St. Aloysius Gonzaga, a Poem by Father William Hart McNichols, S.J., 1989

Last updated on: June 21, 2014 at 5:57 am By Pat McNamara

Aloysius, You have drawn me to you, gentle teacher, loving guide. I am filled with gratitude to you… l love you. Just to see you, to sit with your image, is to see all the simplicity, the trust, and the innocence of the children of the kingdom. Aloysius, Let me serve, let me love as you loved people on earth! Teach me to leave the dark destructive forces within for the Light in the presence of Our Savior, Jesus. Aloysius,... Read more

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2014-06-20T03:34:19-06:00

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Roads to Rome: Margaret Terry Chanler, 1910

Last updated on: June 20, 2014 at 3:34 am By Pat McNamara

MARGARET TERRY CHANLER, RED HOOK, NEW YORK. Wife of Winthrop Chanler, Esq., and sister of Mr, F. Marion Crawford. I was brought up in Rome under a rather feeble ministration of the Anglican Church, which seemed always cold and empty beside the real Churches we constantly visited as children. As I grew older my indifference to Protestantism only increased. I felt there was but one living Church; outside of that was to be found only free thought, philosophical eclecticism, and... Read more

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2014-06-19T09:31:15-06:00

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Catholic History in Less Than Five Minutes: The Age of Charlemagne (800-814 A.D.)

Last updated on: June 19, 2014 at 9:31 am By Pat McNamara

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2014-06-19T05:00:13-06:00

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Catholics in the Military: Lieutenant Augustine F. Hewit, U.S.A. (1857-1882)

Last updated on: June 19, 2014 at 5:00 am By Pat McNamara

Lieut. Augustine F. Hewit, of the United States Army, died on Saturday in San Antonio, Texas, under peculiary sad circumstances. The deceased was a Lieutenant of the Twenty-second Infantry, stationed at San Antonio, and was 25 years of age. He was born in Connecticut, and was appointed a Cadet in the West Point Academy by Gen. Grant, his father , Dr. Henry S. Hewit, being at the time a surgeon on Gen. Grant’s staff. After graduation he was sent out... Read more

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