Here are the stories of rogues and ruffians, heroes and martyrs--from Dorothy Day, a convert from Greenwich Village Marxism who opened shelters for thousands, to Cardinal William O'Connell, who ran the Church in Boston from a Renaissance palazzo, complete with golf course. Morris also reveals...
It was, nevertheless, permitted in certain churches, and is even yet preserved at Toledo as an historical monument of the ancient Spanish Church. The Cistercian Reform, too, was introduced into Spain, during the lifetime of St. Bernard, and the cathedral chapters lived by the Rule of St....
Stanislaus Kostka Church 64-25 Perry Ave. / 57-15 61st St., Maspeth, NY 11378 Presb. Joseph Calise, (718) 326-2185, transtans@gmail.com, transtans.org Newdiocese, SU 12:30 pm St. John Cemetery Chapel 80-01 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village, NY 11379 No celebrant announced, (718)...
Responding to questions is even more important than the talk. A speaker’s aim was not to win an argument, but to win over the person arguing. A favored technique was to show what the questioner and speaker had in common, then how the Church has this to a greater degree. Instead of ...
and business thereof, to he held in the name of, or managed by a bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder, of such religious denomination, society or church.” The passage of this act was procured by Bishop Brondel who incorporated under the name of the “Roman Catholic Bishop of Helena”...
Protestant missionaries were also at Nagasaki prior to the discovery of the old Christians (1865), and to them the Christians of Urakami addressed themselves before going to the Catholic Church. The first Japanese Protestant Church was organized in 1872, after the last persecution, and inaugurated ...
The Jesuits had four churches at Peking: The Northern or French church (Pe-t’ang), the Southern or Portuguese church (Nan-t’ang), the Western church (Si-t’ang), and the Eastern church (Tung-t’ang), the old house of Adam Schall. The two beautiful cemeteries of the Jesuits outsid...
Next, in 1893, while building the German Protestant church which took the place of the church of St. Mary the Latin, the engineers found that the latter edifice had stood upon filled ground. Digging down 30 feet below the actual level of the ground, they came to the rock, and then, ...