The First Nuns in Arkansas, 1851
Early Days in Little Rock On the 6th of February, 1851, the Sisters, under the fatherly care of the bishop, reached their new home among the forest trees after an unusually prosperous journey. They...
View ArticleFordham University, 1912
Fordham University developed out of Saint John’s College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old Rose Hill Farm at Fordham, then in Westchester County, and formally opened on St. John the Baptist’s Day,...
View ArticleThe De La Salle Christian Brothers
The Brothers of the Christian Schools. The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a teaching congregation, founded in the year 1680, St. John Baptist de la Salle, priest, and Doctor of...
View ArticleA Sermon on Gratitude, 1915
XLVII.—Gratitude. Luke, XVII., 11-19 (XIII. Sunday After Pentecost.) It is our strict duty to be thankful to God and men for favors received, and not only to feel our gratitude, but to express it in...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s Unfinished Cathedral, 1894
The Great Memorial Church to Bishop Loughlin. The Brooklyn Eagle, April 29, 1894 Bishop McDonnell’s recommendation at the meeting of the Catholic Historical Society, last Wednesday evening, that the...
View ArticleThe Good Shepherd Sisters, Buffalo, New York, 1914
Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge (Good Shepherd) (Introduced into America, 1855) This order dates its beginning nearly three centuries back and was founded by a zealous missionary priest, the...
View Article“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Ann McCormick Toole, Cleveland,...
As far back as 1832 the Toole family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. They were natives of County Wicklow, Ireland, where they had a farm near the town of Baltinglass, with Dublin as their market place. The...
View ArticleThe Precious Blood Fathers (1814)
The Congregation of the Fathers of the Precious Blood was founded at Rome by the Venerable Gaspare del Bufalo, in 1814, and is divided into four provinces, three European and one American. The latter...
View ArticleArchbishop John Hughes’ Sermon at the Dedication of St. Paul the Apostle...
SERMON ON THE OCCASION OF LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE MISSIONARY HOUSE AND CHURCH OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE, NEW YORK, JUNE 19th, 1859. ” Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build...
View ArticleCardinal James Gibbons, Baltimore (1834-1921)
HIS EMINENCE JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS, First Vicar-Apostolic of North Carolina, Fourth Bishop of Richmond, Ninth Archbishop of Baltimore. James Gibbons was born in the cathedral parish, Baltimore, and...
View ArticleColonel Patrick H. O’Rorke (1837-1863), Hero of Gettysburg
Soldier, b. in County Cavan, Ireland, 25 March, 1837; killed at the battle of Gettysburg, Penn., U.S.A July 1863. He was a year old when his parents emigrated to the United States. They settled in...
View ArticleCatholics and the American Revolution: An Excerpt from a Catholic School...
320. Patriotism Among Catholics. We have seen that the discovery and exploration of America and the subsequent Christianizing and civilizing of the Indians were preeminently Catholic enterprises; also...
View ArticleA Look at the Trappists, 1908
The Trappists, or Reformed Cistercians are a branch of the Order of Citeaux. They possess several monasteries in America, three of which are situated in the United States. The Order took its name from...
View ArticleSchool Days, 1848: A Reminiscence
To travel back in memory sixty years, and to recall vividly with any degree of accuracy the incidents, the customs, the happenings of those early days at old Saint Catharine, involves a feat which...
View ArticleA Sermon on Human Dignity by Cardinal Gibbons, 1908
EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST. OUR DIGNITY AS CHRISTIANS. ROM. viii., 12-17. IN this epistle St. Paul briefly points out to us our exalted dignity as Christians. He tells us that in being...
View ArticleBishop Ignatius Persico, O.F.M. Cap. (1823-1896), Savannah, Georgia
Fourth Bishop of Savannah Ignatius Persico was born in Naples on the 30th of January 1823 of a noble Sorrentine family and received in baptism the name of Camillus William Mary Peter. After completing...
View ArticleA Sermon on the Apostolate of Conversation, by Father Walter Elliott, C.S.P.,...
Apostolate of Conversation. “And the string of his tongue was loosed; and he spoke right.” To enable us to speak right the Son of God must loosen our tongues by a special grace, sometimes by a miracle...
View ArticleFordham’s First Jesuit President
Jesuit educator and publicist, b. at Nantes, France, 20 Nov., 1807; d. at St. John’s College, Fordham, New York, 17 Dec., 1885. Father Thébaud was the son of a worthy but not wealthy merchant who was...
View ArticleConnecticut’s First Bishop: William Tyler (1806-1849)
William Tyler was born on the 5th of June, 1806, at Derby, Vermont, his father being a substantial farmer, his mother a sister of the famous convert Rev. Daniel Barber. She followed the example of her...
View ArticleCatholics in American History: A View from 1908
Catholics in American History. The earliest history of America is the history of Catholicity. The saintly names in the four corners of the American Continent tell that Catholics were its founders,...
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