Protestant Minister Pays Tribute to Catholic Nun Nurses in the Civil War
Catholic Sisters. A Minister’s Tribute to Their Work in the Civil War. As chaplain of the United States flagship Lancaster, stationed in the Harbor of Key West, I visited the hospitals to which the...
View ArticleFather Francis Asbury Baker, C.S.P. (1820-1865)
Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul the Apostle, born Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. 30 March, 1820; died 4 April, 1865. Father Baker was a son of Dr. Samuel Baker, a physician of note in Baltimore. He...
View ArticleA Brother Pioneer: Brother Pastoris, F.S.C. (1819-1874)
Brother Pastoris, F.S.C. (1819-1874) Brother Pastoris (Jules J. Deville, 1819-1874), the austere and apostolic member of this pioneer band, was born in France on March 4, 1819. He entered the novitiate...
View ArticleSISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD (1866), TEXAS
The Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, in its proper sense, dates from the year 1866, but in the prophetic views of the venerated Jeanne Chezard de Matel, who founded the...
View ArticleNew York Pastors: Rev. Patrick McSweeny, St. Bridget’s, Avenue B, 1878
REV. PATRICK FRANCIS McSWEENY, Pastor of St. Bridget’s Church. The Rev. Dr. Patrick Francis McSweeny, the present pastor of St. Bridget’s, was born in Ireland, July 9th, 1838. He came to America with...
View Article“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Andrew McTigue, Far Rockaway,...
The commercial development of America excites the admiration and wonder of the world, but when we take into consideration the character of our citizens, it is not a matter of marvel. The very fact that...
View ArticleBishop Jean Claude Neraz, San Antonio, Texas (1828-1894)
RIGHT REV. J.C. NERAZ, Second Bishop of San Antonio J.C. Neraz was born on the 12th of January, 1828, at Ause, in the Department of the Rhone, France, and after acquiring the rudiments, entered the...
View Article“A Catholic Dog,” from “The New York Times,” 1877
A CATHOLIC DOG (The New York Times, May 7, 1877) The Middletown Press tells this story: “Mr. Herrick, the liveryman, has a dog which has the peculiarity of refusing to eat meat on Friday, although he...
View ArticleA Detroit Pastor: Father Ernest Van Dyke (1845-1918)
Rev. Ernest Van Dyke, St. Aloysius Church, Detroit Father Ernest Van Dyke, son of James A. and Elizabeth (Desnoyers), was born in Detroit, Mich., January 29, 1845. Father Van Dyke acquired a...
View ArticleBishop Arrested in Civil War Mississippi, 1864
MOST REV. WILLIAM HENRY ELDER Third Bishop of Natchez Second Archbishop of Cincinnati William Henry Elder was born in Baltimore in the year 1819, and, corresponding to the pious wish of his parents...
View ArticleCatholic Poetry: “Newman,” by George N. Shuster
NEWMAN BY GEORGE N. SHUSTER Men found you subtle, master, blending skeins Of taut silk thinking with the golden weave Prayer finds in God. A stormy epoch’s eve Stirred your vast silence, till in...
View ArticleA Sermon on Catholic Patriotism at St. Francis Xavier Church, Manhattan, May...
OBJECT LESSON FOR BIGOTS. CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT IN THE MEMORIAL PARADE. Both Fought Bravely for the Same Flag—One the A.P.A. Would Debar from the Country’s Affairs—Sermons of the Rev. Madison C....
View ArticleGeorge Hasenour (1841-1915): Soldier, Teacher, Entrepeneur
A Civil War Veteran: George Hasenour , Celestine, Indiana George Hasenour, a gallant ex-soldier and one of the best-known businessmen of Celestine, Dubois County, Indiana, was born in Louisville,...
View ArticlePassionists Celebrate Golden Jubilee in U.S., 1902
“Golden Jubilee of the Passionists in the United States, by a Passionist Father” The Catholic World Volume 76 (January 1903): 502-515. Just at this time the Passionist Fathers are celebrating the...
View ArticleKnow-Nothings Plot to Burn Fordham, 1853
Father John Larkin played a major role in the development of Catholic higher education in New York City. In 1847, he founded the College of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan, now known as Xavier High...
View ArticleCatholic Poetry: “The Hound of Heaven” by Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
In the early twentieth century, Francis Thompson’s poem “The Hound of Heaven” was very popular among Catholic readers in the English-speaking world. (The playwright Eugene O’Neill could recite it from...
View ArticleThe Poor Clares Come to the U.S., 1875
THE POOR CLARES (1875) Religious orders being an integral part of the Church, naturally share in her trials and triumphs. Whenever the Church has been assailed, religious orders usually have had to...
View Article“The Church Would Look Foolish Without Them”: Thomas F. O’Rorke, Bronx, New York
THOS. F. O’RORKE, of 692 Union Avenue, the Bronx, is one of the solid men of the borough—the owner of valuable property. He was one of the first to discern what lay in the future for that part of the...
View ArticleMontana’s First Bishop Recounts Audience with Pope Leo XIII, 1890
“Bishop Brondel in Rome,” The Tablet, June 7, 1890 SIR,— I wish to communicate to you as well as I can the account of an audience received yesterday at 12:30 from His Holiness Pope Leo XIII. When I was...
View ArticleHoly Cross College Alumnus Becomes Confederate General, 1863
The College of the Holy Cross was founded in 1843 by Father Benedict Joseph Fenwick, a Jesuit who later became second Bishop of Boston. New England’s first Catholic college, its early students Irish...
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