The American Catholic Almanac: A Daily Reader of Patriots, Saints, Rogues, and Ordinary People Who Changed the United States

765 Pages·2014·2.19 MB·English

by  Burch

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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
January
January 1: The Little Girl From Cork
January 2: A General Maligned
January 3: The Gladiator Bishop
January 4: The Independent Catholic Church of America
January 5: America’s Most Useful Citizen
January 6: The Wide Expanse of the Ocean
January 7: A Letter From the President
January 8: America’s First Bishop
January 9: Buffalo Bill’s Last Ride
January 10: The Irish Speaker
January 11: A Model Parish Priest
January 12: A Pontifical Seminary
January 13: The Dominican Bishop
January 14: St. Monica’s Catholic Church
January 15: Our Lady of the Lake
January 16: Legislating Liberty
January 17: Scarface
January 18: A Network of Miracles
January 19: The Snowshoe Priest
January 20: A Catholic President
January 21: The Hands of a Woman
January 22: Witness to Our Benevolence
January 23: The Blue and the Gray
January 24: Gold for God
January 25: Our Sunday Visitor
January 26: The German Professor
January 27: Mission Control
January 28: The Priest in the House
January 29: The Poet of the Angelus
January 30: A Gift Beyond Price
January 31: The Milwaukee Bridge Wars
February
February 1: The Apostle to the Sioux
February 2: Bishop Fenwick’s College
February 3: The Four Chaplains
February 4: The Church “At the Rapids”
February 5: The Congregationalist Convert
February 6: Providence, the Pope and the President
February 7: A Church Divided
February 8: Pascal’s Wager
February 9: The Angel of the Delta
February 10: Building a Wall
February 11: The Frontier Bishop
February 12: The Jesuits of White Marsh
February 13: An Episcopal Apologist
February 14: Sherman’s March
February 15: The Gateway Church
February 16: A Life Transformed
February 17: A Toast for Senator Blaine
February 18: Come Holy Spirit
February 19: The Soldier Boy From Buffalo
February 20: The Gibbons’ Memorial
February 21: An American Martyr
February 22: A Continental Legacy
February 23: “The Patriot Priest”
February 24: Father McSweeney’s Scheme
February 25: The First Catholic Conference
February 26: A Place for Worship
February 27: Georgetown’s “Second Founder”
February 28: Broken Ties
March
March 1: A Pledge of Fidelity
March 2: The Saint’s Nephew
March 3: The Merchant Patriot
March 4: Letters From an American Farmer
March 5: The Sisters From Lyon
March 6: The Pope’s Stone
March 7: Bloody Sunday
March 8: The Last-Minute Catholic
March 9: Knute Rockne, All American
March 10: Mrs. Mattingly’s Miracle
March 11: On the Square
March 12: The Christ-Haunted Rambler
March 13: The Watching Eagle
March 14: The Priest of the Pimería Alta
March 15: A Legacy Overshadowed
March 16: The World’s Largest Archdiocese
March 17: The Home Missions
March 18: A Nativist Resurgence
March 19: Father Baker’s Legacy
March 20: America’s First Italian Bishop
March 21: An Honest Politician
March 22: Unpaid Debts
March 23: The Leper Priest
March 24: The Catholic Cartoonist
March 25: The Ark and the Dove
March 26: “The Great Catholic ‘What If?’ ”
March 27: The Creole Sister
March 28: The Bavarian Saint
March 29: The Strong Right Arm of the Church
March 30: A Portrait of Dissent
March 31: The First American Saint
April
April 1: The Pop Artist
April 2: The Feast of Flowers
April 3: From the Front Lines
April 4: New York’s Native Cardinal
April 5: A Question of Habits
April 6: An American Catechism
April 7: The Duke
April 8: The Lonely Bishop
April 9: The French Explorer
April 10: A Film for All Seasons
April 11: England of Ireland
April 12: The Little Napoleon
April 13: The Reason for the Wall
April 14: The Unshakable Priests of the Unsinkable Ship
April 15: A Papal Visit
April 16: Besting Babe
April 17: La Chapelle de l’Assomption de la Sainte Vierge a la Belle Rivière
April 18: A City in Ashes
April 19: The Majority Report
April 20: A Spiritually Deadly Oath
April 21: An Act of Toleration
April 22: The Hogan Schism
April 23: Fighting in the Fields
April 24: From Slave to Priest
April 25: The Exorcist
April 26: The Seamless Garment Weaver
April 27: A Plea for Religious Freedom
April 28: On St. Mary’s Mountain
April 29: The Master of Suspense
April 30: The Bishop and the Oath
May
May 1: The Catholic Worker
May 2: Buck v. Bell
May 3: The Catholic Crooner
May 4: The Woman
May 5: Cinco de Mayo
May 6: The First American Cardinal
May 7: The Flying Monk
May 8: The Defeated Sun God
May 9: Catholicism in America
May 10: The Big Priest
May 11: Moscow on the Hudson
May 12: The Barber From Canonsburg
May 13: Tinseltown’s Lady-Killer
May 14: America’s Catholic Founding Father
May 15: The City of Little Men
May 16: The Political Lightning Rod
May 17: The Father of Oregon
May 18: The Explorer-Priest
May 19: Border Wars
May 20: The Shepherds’ Council
May 21: A Button-Down Mind
May 22: Entertaining God
May 23: The Belgian Black-Robe
May 24: The School the Bishops Built
May 25: America’s Proto-Priest
May 26: The Puritans’ Conundrum
May 27: On a Mission
May 28: The Greatest Athlete in the World
May 29: In the Line of Fire
May 30: The Satirist and the Saint
May 31: The Catholic Odd Couple
June
June 1: Unintended Consequences
June 2: Atlanta’s Irish Hero
June 3: The Rosary Priest
June 4: The Father of America’s Navy
June 5: Moylan’s Horse
June 6: Chicago’s Founding Father
June 7: Westward, Ho!
June 8: Mourning Bobby
June 9: White-Winged Angels
June 10: The Saint of Dawson
June 11: From the Ashes
June 12: By the People and for the People
June 13: The Babe
June 14: I Confess
June 15: A Model for Dissent
June 16: A Different Sort of Greatness
June 17: The Poles’ Pride
June 18: Catholic and American
June 19: The Beer Monks
June 20: Preaching Equality
June 21: Bishop Hughes’ School
June 22: A Blessing in Disguise
June 23: The Apostle of the Upper Midwest
June 24: The Knight of Labor
June 25: The Catholic Court
June 26: Defending Marriage
June 27: Marching for Life
June 28: The Italian Egalitarian
June 29: The Institute Catholique
June 30: From Slave to Saint
July
July 1: An Honorary Irishman
July 2: The Black Sisters of Baltimore
July 3: After Gettysburg
July 4: Declaring Independence
July 5: The Father of Puerto Rico’s Public Schools
July 6: Chaos in Philadelphia
July 7: Carroll’s Cathedral
July 8: Archbishop Kenrick, the Elder
July 9: Hawthorne’s Daughter
July 10: Escape From Revolution
July 11: No Quarter
July 12: On Dying Well
July 13: Taking the Pledge
July 14: The Lily of the Mohawks
July 15: The Crime of Knowing Latin
July 16: Thinking About God
July 17: Observe the Time and Fly
July 18: The Miraculous Staircase of Loretto
July 19: Trouble Comes for the Archbishop
July 20: A Different Declaration of Independence
July 21: The Recycled Basilica
July 22: The Father of U.S. Catholic History
July 23: The Polish Count
July 24: The Wonderworker
July 25: Open Dissent
July 26: St. Anne’s of Detroit
July 27: Coode’s Rebellion
July 28: A Martyr for the Poor
July 29: China’s American Bishop
July 30: The Church’s Powerbroker
July 31: Where Ottawanta Prayed
August
August 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
August 2: The Circuit Rider
August 3: Mystery and Manners
August 4: Vibiana
August 5: Unofficial Honors
August 6: Bloody Monday
August 7: Like Leaven
August 8: Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
August 9: San Miguel Mission
August 10: The Ursuline Convent Riot
August 11: Loving All God’s Children
August 12: Son of the South
August 13: A New Evangelization
August 14: The Knights’ Father
August 15: Martyred at Mass
August 16: Alleviating Suffering
August 17: Jane Roe
August 18: The Troubled Bishop
August 19: The Remarkable Bishop
August 20: A North American Martyr
August 21: The German Sister
August 22: Miracle Hill
August 23: Father Rale’s War
August 24: America’s Architect
August 25: The Royal Hydrographer
August 26: A Bishop for the Gulf Coast
August 27: A New Face for Anti-Catholicism
August 28: A Day to Celebrate
August 29: Church Hill
August 30: Building Boston
August 31: Bull Feeney
September
September 1: Right Reasoning
September 2: The Road to Rome
September 3: Lombardi’s Legend
September 4: The Grunt Padre
September 5: A Missionary of Charity
September 6: The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
September 7: The Chapel Car Priests
September 8: The Spanish Builder
September 9: The Swampoodle Church
September 10: The Ajacán Mission
September 11: A Parish History
September 12: The Americanist Bishop?
September 13: The San Patricios
September 14: The First American Saint
September 15: Home to Harlem
September 16: Seeking Truth
September 17: The Georgia Martyrs
September 18: The Suffolk Resolves
September 19: The Sisters of Mercy
September 20: Walls of Stone
September 21: The Colorful Cardinal
September 22: Woman to Woman
September 23: A Shrine for Mary
September 24: The Little Sisters
September 25: California’s Catholic Father
September 26: The Troublesome Dominicans
September 27: The First Lady of Law
September 28: In Mormon Country
September 29: San Miguel de Gualdape
September 30: The Pastor of the Poor