Catholic Exchange, Dale Ahlquist: A friend once lent me a book that I wish everyone else could read. Unfortunately it is not readily available. In fact, it has been out of print for almost 120 years. It is the memoir … Continue reading
Category: Catholic America
Blessed Nykyta Budka, Bishop of Canada, Martyr
A Ukrainian martyr, Blessed Nykyta Budka, who served as the first Greek Catholic bishop in Canada, is hardly known outside the Ukrainian Catholic Church, yet he was one of the most formidable bishops to grace not only the Church in … Continue reading
Signs for Hope: FSSP Has 75 Seminarians in US and Looking to Open Seminary in Mexico
Rorate Caeli: The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Mexico is excited to tell you about their new project. We are in the process of purchasing a new parochial house and formation center. This new property will enable the FSSP to … Continue reading
Remembering Father Alfred Kunz, His Holiness, Charity, and Zeal
Matt C. Abbot, Catholic Online: In the early morning of March 4, 1998, Father Alfred Kunz, a priest and canon lawyer of the Diocese of Madison, Wis., was found brutally murdered in his parish school, St. Michael’s, in Dane, Wis. … Continue reading
KC Royals VP Relates His Amazing Story of Becoming a Catholic
Trent Beattie, National Catholic Register: Is it true that you grew up Lutheran but always had respect for the Catholic Church? Yes, I grew up as a Missouri Synod Lutheran, and, while for many years I didn’t actually want to … Continue reading
Benedictine Nuns Offer Traditional Song and Liturgical Chant
CNA: Together with the joys of the Resurrection and feasting, this Easter will have an added delight: listening to the new album by the hit-making, Missouri-based Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. “Many people do not realize that the Easter … Continue reading
An Indomitable Woman: Margaret Haughery, The Breadwoman of New Orleans
When one thinks of New Orleans and its people, the common belief is that New Orleanians are primarily of French extraction. Although the Mediterranean influence in the city since its founding and early history — both France and Spain flew … Continue reading
A Sick and Satanic US War Against Catholic Mexicans: Polk’s 1846 Massacres
I posted this in the Column section in the hope that more people would read it. Just a bit more information as a side bar: The Spanish flag has flown for a longer period over more of the land that … Continue reading
The Three Goods
What do people talk about? Apart from something current in the news, like Ebola at the moment of this writing, doubtless the favorite subject of most persons is themselves and their doings. This is so much the case that another … Continue reading
New Jersey Sister of Charity to Be Beatified October 4
This is great news for my family. My aunt is a Sister of Charity at Saint Elizabeth’s Convent where Sister Miriam Theresa resided. My aunt worked with the late Sister Zita at the Sister Miriam Theresa League House. The new … Continue reading
Suicide
Though it’s a horror from which Catholics may recoil, it is a fact that since 2001, the year our continuing war in Afghanistan was begun, more U.S. military personnel have committed suicide than have been killed in action in that … Continue reading
Papal Blasts From the Past
Leaving my apartment building last February 18, I fell on the icy front steps and broke both bones of my right forearm, the radius and ulna, about two fingers below the wrist bone. It wouldn’t be until six weeks later … Continue reading
Father Nicholas Viel, First Canadian Martyr
When the Eight North American Martyrs are praised for their apostolic zeal, holiness, and fortitude, we honor their memory: Saints Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brebeuf, Rene Goupil, Antoine Daniel, Noel Chabanel, Gabriel Lalemant, Charles Garnier, and Jean de Lalande, all … Continue reading