Catholics 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,...
View Article“Catholic Officers in the Army and Navy,” An 1899 Series from “The Catholic...
In 1899, the New York-based Catholic World, an operation of the Paulist Fathers founded in 1865, featured a series on Army and Navy officers who had recently served in the Spanish-American War. This...
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 ArticleMilitary Mass During the Civil War, 1864
FATHER CORBY’S DESCRIPTION OF A MILITARY MASS On or about the 4th day of September, 1864, Gen. Meagher, who was on a visit with Gen. Hancock at the time, prior to his departure for the department of...
View ArticleCatholics at West Point, a 1908 Survey
Today, the day that the Class of 2014 graduates from the United States Military Academy, offers an opportunity to look at some of the Catholic graduates West Point. During the nineteenth century, the...
View ArticleChristopher Columbus and Notre Dame: A Church Historian’s Perspective
Among institutes of higher education, Notre Dame has a storied place in American Catholic culture and life. In his 1972 book That Most Distressful Nation, Father Andrew Greeley wrote that for many...
View Article“A Million Foreigners, Most of Them Papists”: The Anti-Papal Panic of the 1910’s
The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., once called anti-Catholicism America’s most persistent prejudice. For much of the Colonial period, Catholics had no religious or civil rights. (The exception...
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