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2009-12-03T00:06:00-07:00

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Byzantine Eparchy of Van Nuys Founded 1981

Last updated on: December 3, 2009 at 12:06 am By Pat McNamara

Today marks the founding of the Byzantine Eparchy of Van Nuys, California, in 1981. The first Byzantine Catholic parish in the West was founded in 1956 when a request was made for a Byzantine priest in the Los Angeles area. Father Eugene Chromoga was sent, and the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated on November 18, 1956 in Van Nuys. St. Mary’s in Van Nuys was the first Byzantine parish in the West. In the next few years, parishes were founded... Read more

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2009-12-03T00:03:00-07:00

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Daniel A. Rudd (1854-1933)

Last updated on: December 3, 2009 at 12:03 am By Pat McNamara

There’s never been a newspaper quite like The American Catholic Tribune, an independent Catholic newspaper published between 1886 and 1897. What made it unique was that it was a paper published for African-American Catholics, by African-American Catholics. The driving force behind the paper was a Daniel A. Rudd (1854-1933), a former slave from Bardstown, a heavily Catholic community in Kentucky. As a young man, Rudd moved to Ohio, where he started the paper. He stated his goal in the paper’s... Read more

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2009-12-03T00:02:00-07:00

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Father Francis X. Talbot, S.J. (1889-1953)

Last updated on: December 3, 2009 at 12:02 am By Pat McNamara

Born in Philadelphia, Francis Xavier Talbot (seen above on the right) joined the Jesuits after high school. After his ordination in 1921, he became literary editor for the Jesuits’ America magazine. In this capacity he had a great influence on the Catholic literary scene. Among the organizations he helped found were the Catholic Book Club, the Catholic Poetry Society of America, the Catholic Theater Conference and the Catholic Library Association. Because of his interest in films, he worked closely with... Read more

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2009-12-03T00:00:00-07:00

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St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552)

Last updated on: December 3, 2009 at 12:00 am By Pat McNamara

Considered by many to be the greatest missionary since Saint Paul, Francis Xavier was born in Spain. While he was studying at the University of Paris, he met St. Ignatius Loyola and became one of his earliest followers. Ordained in 1537, Xavier was one of the first seven Jesuits. After ordination, he served for a brief period in Rome. In 1541 he departed for India as the Jesuits’ first foreign missionary. He landed in Goa and immediately began to learn... Read more

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2009-12-02T00:08:00-07:00

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Christmas Music

Last updated on: December 2, 2009 at 12:08 am By Pat McNamara

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2009-12-02T00:05:00-07:00

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Quote of the Day

Last updated on: December 2, 2009 at 12:05 am By Pat McNamara

You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother; you cannot in common life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows as it followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes... Read more

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2009-12-02T00:04:00-07:00

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Old (Anti-) Catholic Stuff

Last updated on: December 2, 2009 at 12:04 am By Pat McNamara

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2009-12-02T00:02:00-07:00

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Ivan Illich (1926-2002)

Last updated on: December 2, 2009 at 12:02 am By Pat McNamara

Ivan Illlich was born in Vienna into a family with Jewish, Dalmatian and Catholic roots. His was an errant life, and he never found a home again after his family had to leave Vienna in 1941. He was educated in that city and then in Florence before reading histology and crystallography at Florence University. He decided to enter the priesthood and studied theology and philosophy at the Vatican’s Gregorian University from 1943 to 1946. He started work as a priest... Read more

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2009-12-01T23:59:00-07:00

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Cardinal Francis J. Spellman (1889-1967)

Last updated on: December 1, 2009 at 11:59 pm By Pat McNamara

Born in Massachusetts, Francis Joseph Spellman graduated from Fordham in 1911 and studied at the North American College in Rome, where he was ordained in 1916. He returned to Massachusetts as a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. But Cardinal William O’Connell had little use for the new priest, assigning him to such unglamorous positions as circulation editor for the Boston Pilot and archdiocesan archivist, with his office in the Chancery basement.Not even Spellman’s strongest supporters deny that he was... Read more

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2009-12-01T05:52:00-07:00

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Christmas Music

Last updated on: December 1, 2009 at 5:52 am By Pat McNamara

Once again showing the Church’s universality, a Christmas Carol in Arabic: Read more

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