Catholic Poetry
FATHER DAMIEN By John Bannister Tabb O God, the cleanest offering Of tainted earth below, Unblemished to thy feet we bring— “A leper white as snow!” Joyce Kilmer, ed., Dreams and Images: An Anthology...
View ArticleThe Jesuits in Hell’s Kitchen, 1900
THE WORK OF OUR MISSIONARIES. MISSION IN “HELL’S KITCHEN,” NEW YORK. A Letter from Father Stanton....
View ArticleThe Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother
SISTERS OF THE SORROWFUL MOTHER (1889) The Congregation of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, also known as Sisters of Charity, under the Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis Assisi, was founded in...
View ArticleBishop John Moore, St. Augustine, Florida (1834-1901)
MOORE, JOHN, R.C. Bishop, was born in Castletown-Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland, June 24, 1834. In 1848 he emigrated to Charleston, S.C., where he began classical studies. He completed his classical...
View ArticleFather Robert Fulton, S.J. (1826-1895), President of Boston College
Rev. James Robert Fulton (The New York Times, September 6, 1895) The Rev. James Robert Fulton, S.J., ex-President of Boston College, died yesterday at Santa Clara College, San Jose, Cal. The Rev. James...
View ArticleFuneral Mass for President Lincoln, Brooklyn, April 1865
THE PRESIDENT’S MURDER— UNIVERSAL GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE— MOURNING THROUGHOUT THE CITY— THE DAY IN THE CHURCHES (The Brooklyn Times, April 17, 1865) At Sts. Peter and Paul’s Yesterday That yesterday...
View ArticleNew York’s First Catholic Mayor: William Russell Grace (1832-1904)
Philanthropist and merchant, born at Cork, Ireland, 10 May, 1832; died at New York, 21 March, 1904. His father was originally from Queen’s County, where the Graces lived from the days of their...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s German Catholics Celebrate Jubilee, 1891
HALF A CENTURY– Since the German Catholics Came to Brooklyn– The Fifty Years of the Foundation of the Colony to be Commemorated in Vicar General May’s Church (The Brooklyn Eagle, September 28, 1891,...
View ArticleCarmelites Celebrate Centennial in U.S., 1890
THE CARMELITE CENTENARY (The New York Times, October 16, 1890) Baltimore, October 15.— The Carmelite nuns today celebrated the centennial of the establishment of the Carmelite Order in this country. By...
View ArticleMonsignor Bernard O’Reilly (1820-1907)
Historian, b. 20 Sept., 1820, in County Mayo, Ireland; d. in New York, U.S.A. 26 April, 1907. In early life he emigrated to Canada, where in 1836 he entered Laval University. He was ordained priest in...
View Article“How the Young Colonel Died”
HOW THE YOUNG COLONEL DIED By David Gray You want to hear me tell you how the young Colonel died, God help me memory will not fail on that, nor tongue be tied. Aye, write it down and print it in your...
View Article“St. Vincent De Paul,” a Poem, 1862
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL A hymn to St. Vincent De Paul, The Apostle of brotherly love! He cared for the great and the small, As sons of one Father above. He taught men in luxury’s dome, The wisdom that...
View ArticleMother Theresa Willingman, O.S.P. (1831-1907)
The sixth Superioress of the Order was Reverend Mother Theresa Willingman, a native of Madison, N.J., who spent nearly her whole life with the Oblate Sisters, having been placed with them at the early...
View ArticleA New Year’s Day Sermon, New York, 1901
NEW YEAR’S DAY. THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE LORD. “And after eight days were accomplished, that the child should be circumcised, his name was called Jesus.”—Luke ii.21. To-Day is a day of the greatest...
View ArticleArchbishop John J. Kain, St. Louis (1841-1903)
DIOCESE OF WHEELING. RIGHT REV. JOHN J. KAIN, Bishop of Wheeling. John J. Kain was born in Martinsburg, Berkeley Co., West Virginia, on the 31st of May, 1811, the only son of Jeremiah and Ellen Murphy...
View ArticleHoly Name Entertainment, Brooklyn, 1878
ST. PAUL’S R.C. CHURCH. Entertainment Last Evening Under the Auspices of the Society of the Holy Name. The Brooklyn Eagle, February 20, 1878, 3. In the Atheneum, last evening, a...
View ArticleSt. Elizabeth Seton (1774-1821), By One who Knew Her
It may be truly said that Mother Seton’s manner was the secret of her extraordinary influence a happy blending of ardent zeal with maternal sweetness. A moment’s intercourse with her was sufficient to...
View ArticleSt. John Nepomucene Neumann (1811-1860)
FIRST AMERICAN SOON TO BE PLACED, AFTER YEARS OF SOLICITATION BU U.S. CATHOLICS, IN THE CALENDAR OF SAINTS (The Brooklyn Eagle, February 16, 1902, 44) Roman Catholics of the United States, who have...
View ArticleFather Augustine F. Hewit, C.S.P. (1820-1897)
Father Hewit is Dead. The Head of the Paulists Passes Away at the Monastery in this City. Sketch of His Life Work. Associated with Other Denominations Before He Became a Roman Catholic— The Church that...
View ArticleCivil War Chaplain Becomes Bishop: Bishop Lawrence S. McMahon, Hartford, CT...
RIGHT REV. LAWRENCE S. McMAHON, Fifth Bishop of Hartford. Lawrence S. Mcmahon was born in the British province of New Brunswick in 1835, but was brought to the United States in his fourth year. His...
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