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2012-08-01T06:21:10-06:00

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston (1871)

Last updated on: August 1, 2012 at 6:21 am By Pat McNamara

Parish of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Commonly Called “The Mission Church” Under the charge of the Redemptorist Fathers, or Priests of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, this church was organized. They are a religious order, founded in 1732 by St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Bishop of St. Agatha, in the Kingdom of Naples, Italy. The object of the order is, principally, to give missions and similar religious exercises in which work they have been engaged in this country... Read more

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2012-07-31T06:13:20-06:00

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“You Jesuits Are Everywhere”

Last updated on: July 31, 2012 at 6:13 am By Pat McNamara

Born in France, Father Louis Hippolyte-Gache, S.J. (1817-1907), was a Chaplain in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War. In his letters, he recounts the following incident in the Fall of 1861, when he met Confederate General John Bankhead Magruder (1807-1871). The following is taken from Cornelius M. Buckley, S.J., ed., A Frenchman, A Chaplain, A Rebel: The War Letters of Pere Louis- Hippolyte Gache, S.J. (Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1981), 50-51. I had the opportunity of seeing Major General Magruder... Read more

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2012-07-30T05:22:43-06:00

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Father Michael D. Lilly, O.P. (1831-1900)

Last updated on: July 30, 2012 at 5:22 am By Pat McNamara

On the death of Father Lilly St Joseph’s Province of the Dominican Order lost one of its ablest and most energetic members. Until last summer he had enjoved excellent health was hale and hearty notwithstanding the fact that for the last four years of his life he had suffered from that most terrible of temporal afflictions total blindness. About the first of July he began to feel the effects of the extreme heat and two weeks later was confined to his... Read more

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2012-07-29T05:55:20-06:00

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A Sermon by Archbishop John Hughes, Brooklyn, 1853

Last updated on: July 29, 2012 at 5:55 am By Pat McNamara

Sermon on the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Church of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, Star of the Sea, Brooklyn, N.Y., July 17, 1853. MY DEAR BRETHREN— I can have no hope that my voice will be able to reach the boundaries of an assemblage as this which I see before and around me. With silence on your part, the few words which I have to address you may be heard to a certain distance; but should there be... Read more

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2012-07-28T07:25:17-06:00

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An Early Olympian: Martin John Sheridan (1881-1918)

Last updated on: July 28, 2012 at 7:25 am By Pat McNamara

As the 2012 Olympics gets underway, it seems appropriate to focus on one of the first American participants, a man deemed “one of the greatest athletes” America had ever known. Between 1904 and 1908 he won nine Olympic medals: four gold, three silver, and one bronze. He competed in the discus throw, stone throw, long jump, the Greek discus, and shot put. Born in County Mayo, Ireland, he grew up in New York City. There his athletic ability came into focus... Read more

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2012-07-27T05:36:26-06:00

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America’s First Monastery: The Carmelites in Maryland (1790)

Last updated on: July 27, 2012 at 5:36 am By Pat McNamara

The Discalced Carmelite Nuns (O.C.D.) were the first community of women religious founded in the thirteen United States proper, arriving at Charles County, Maryland, in 1790. It was also the first Roman Catholic monastery in the new nation. Four Carmelite Nuns, Bernardina Matthews (along with her nieces Mary Eleanora and Mary Aloysia Matthews) and Clare Joseph Dickinson. All of them had joined the Carmelites in Europe. All but Dickinson, a native of England, were Maryland-born Catholics. Earlier Sister Bernardina’s brother, a priest in Maryland, had... Read more

2012-07-24T05:05:54-06:00

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Father Anthony Ciampi, S.J. (1816-1893)

Last updated on: July 24, 2012 at 5:05 am By Pat McNamara

Several of the premier Jesuit college presidents in 19th century America were Italian. Father Joseph Cataldo founded Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Father John Grassi played a key role in the early history of Georgetown University, while Father Anthony Maraschi founded theUniversity of San Francisco. Born to a prominent Roman family, Anthony Ciampi was a nephew of Cardinal Giuseppe Sala (1762-1839), who held several key internal posts in Vatican government under Pope Gregory XVI. He studied at the Jesuits’ Roman College... Read more

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2012-07-23T05:25:17-06:00

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Eliza Allen Starr (1824-1901), Convert and Poet

Last updated on: July 23, 2012 at 5:25 am By Pat McNamara

Born to a distinguished New England family, Eliza Allen Starr grew up “in an atmosphere of culture and refinement.” It was said that she inherited her love of literature from her family. After attending some of the region’s finest schools, she taught drawing in Brooklyn. During the ensuing years, she became acquainted with Roman Catholicism through a relative who was a convert. On December 3, 1854, Boston’s Bishop John B. Fitzpatrick received her into the Church. One biographer notes that she... Read more

2012-07-22T09:09:25-06:00

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“True National Honor”: A Sermon by Cardinal James Gibbons (1834-1921)

Last updated on: July 22, 2012 at 9:09 am By Pat McNamara

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. “CHRIST THE ONLY ENDURING NAME IN HISTORY AND THE GREAT REFORMER OF SOCIETY.” Matt. xxiv., 15-35. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.” Jesus Christ is the only vital and enduring name in history. He exerts today a paramount influence on the political and social, as well as on the moral and religious world, such as was ever wielded by any earthly ruler. In contrast with the founders of empires,... Read more

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2012-07-21T08:13:30-06:00

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Catholic Poetry

Last updated on: July 21, 2012 at 8:13 am By Pat McNamara

I AM THE WAY By Rev. Alfred Young, C.S.P. “Thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as a way to them that passed over.” Isaias li. 23 What haste, good pilgrim? Whither art thou bound? “Jerusalem, good sir, is where I long to stay.” Methinks thy way is over rough, thorny ground To seek so blest an end. Art not astray? “If there be thorns I know not. To my feet This one true way is from all... Read more

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