By or About Individual Catholics


20th CENTURY


Bernard Häring, CSsR A tribute to the great moral theologian of the Second Vatican Council

Bernard Häring, CSsR A tribute to from the Alphonsian Academy

Dorothy Day A Biography by Jim Forest

Dorothy Day Library on the Web

Peter Maurin Saint and Scholar of the Catholic Worker. By Mark and Louise Zwick of the Houston Catholic Worker, Casa Juan Diego

Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin Didn't He Show Us the Way? Article by John Bookser Feister in St. Anthony Messenger

Mother Teresa The Path of Love

Mother Teresa

Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1965 to 1983

Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ When Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría visited Santa Clara in 1982, he was rector [president] of the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador. Seven years after Father Ellacuría addressed the Santa Clara graduating class of 1982, on November 16, 1989, he, along with five of his brother Jesuits and two women colleagues, were murdered at the University of Central America

Pioneer Jesuits in the South After the Suppression Albert H. Biever, S.J. (1859-1934), John W. Hynes, S.J. (1886-1953), Louis J. Twomey, S.J. (1905-1969), Joseph H. Fichter, S.J. (1908-1994), Clement J. McNaspy, S.J. (1915-1995)

Daniel Berrigan Article by Gerry McCarthy

Andrew M. Greeley Author, priest, sociologist. Read his homilies and articles as well as reviews of his novels

Jacques Maritain Philosopher, diplomat, educator

Archbishop Oscar Romero Salt of the Earth's remembrance of the slain bishop of San Salvador

Thomas Merton Monk and Poet

Thomas Merton: The Global Future and Parish Priorities Article by Donald Grayston

Thomas Merton: The Pursuit of Marginality Article by Lawrence S. Cunningham

Thomas Merton: A Modern Arjuna Article by Paul Veliyathil in Spirituality Today, 1987

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Vincent McNabb Irish Dominican scholar

Bede Griffiths Holy Man for Our Time. This article by John R. Mabry in Creation Spirituality magazine

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Master preacher, master of the air waves

Thomas Berry An Electronic Archive of Selected Papers

Cesar E. Chavez A civil rights, Latino, farm worker, and labor leader; a religious and spiritual figure; a community servant and social entrepreneur; a crusader for nonviolent social change; and an environmentalist and consumer advocate

Sister Helen Prejean

Paulo Freire

Catherine de Hueck Doherty

Chiara Lubich

Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Boff: Theologian for All Christians Article by Robert McAfee Brown

Drinking from Our Own Wells Article about Gustavo Gutierrez by Robert McAfee Brown

Evelyn Waugh

Graham Greene

Cardinal Joseph Cardijn

Christopher Dawson Article by Caroline T. Marshall in Christian History, 2001

Franz Jägerstätter The man who refused to fight for Hitler

Bernard Lonergan

Anthony deMello, SJ Biography, Quotations, writings

Josef Koszarycz Visit this professor from down under

Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph. D. Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Rev. Patrick A. Umberger Autobiography of a priest from the diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin

Virginia Cyr Quentin Colgan of Ohio Dominican College provides us with the letters of this remarkable young woman who died in 1967, and he analyzes her spirituality

Ryckeboer Ludwina, MMS My work for women and girl refugees in Malawi

Japanese Christian Identity Interviews with twenty Japanese Christians, many of them Catholic

In the Spotlight Meet some wonderful Salesian missionaries

Bits of Bitz The homepage of Fr. Al Bitz of North Dakota

Philip St. Romain Author and retreatmaster from Wichita, Kansas

Passionist Volunteers in West Virginia

Gerard Serafin A Catholic Page For Lovers. "I hope your visit will refresh your own heart and renew faith, hope,and love!"

I Love You, God Steven Merten is a devoted catholic who has studied the 640 biblical uses of the word love. You cannot love without the option not to love. You cannot be kind without the option not to be kind. Through free will man is able to choose to do God's will. To morally choose to do God's will is love for God

Father Pius Edwin Sammut Meet this Discalced Carmelite in his webpage Enjoy the Freedom of God

Sister Elaine Roulet A brief biography from the National Women's Hall of Fame

Richard Cross Read some of the writings of this man who is interested in music (classical and liturgical), theology (dogmatic and moral), scripture, church history, the Middle East and travel

Jesuit Greg Boyle, Gang Priest Article by Carol Ann Morrow in St. Anthony Messenger, 1999

Brother Priests Minister in West Virginia Article by Thomas R. Papeika in St. Anthony Messenger, 1999

Abbot's Page Homilies and talks by Abbot John Eudes Bamberger of Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, NY

Peter Kreeft Writings of this professor of philosophy at Boston College

George Santayana: Catholic Atheist Article by Richard Butler, O.P. in Spirituality Today, 1986

Jean Vanier: Recovering the Heart Article by Michael Downey in Spirituality Today, 1986


PRE-20th CENTURY


John Henry Cardinal Newman Who is John Henry Cardinal Newman? Chief Dates in Cardinal Newman's Life. Newman Quotes. Tractarianism/Oxford Movement. Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman. John Henry Cardinal Newman Award. Prayer for the canonization of Newman. Newman Gallery

Venerable Cardinal Newman

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Frederic Ozanam The primary founder of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society; beatified in August 1997

Venerable Felix de Andreis Missionary of Carondelet (Missouri) 1778-1820

Peter Joseph Triest Founder of the Brothers of Charity

Father Augustus Tolton First U.S. African American Priest

James Healy The first African-American bishop in the United States

Patrick Healy The first African-American president of a predominantly white university

Mary Ward Founder of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Jacob of Ghazir OFM Cap

Leo Allatius 17th century Greek Catholic humanist

Peter Abelard 12th century French dialectician, philosopher, and theologian

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa 16th century Spanish discoverer of the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of Central America

George Calvert 17th century English First Lord Baltimore, statesman and colonizer

John Carroll First bishop of the hierarchy of the United States of America

Jacques Cartier 16th century discoverer of Canada

Catherine de' Medici 16th century Queen of France

Miguel de Cervantes 17th century Spanish author

Geoffrey Chaucer 14th century English poet

Dante Alighieri 14th century Italian poet

Christopher Columbus 15th century Italian explorer

Nicolaus Copernicus 16th century Polish scientist

Meister Johann Eckhart 14th century Dominican preacher, theologian and mystic

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon 18th century French bishop and author

Galileo Galilei 17th century Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

Joel Chandler Harris 19th century American novelist, poet, and journalist

Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville 17th century founder of the colony of Louisiana

Louis Joliet 17th century Canadian discoverer

Wilhelm Emmanuel, Baron von Ketteler 19th century German bishop and social reformer

Jean-Baptiste-Henri Dominique Lacordaire 19th century French pulpit orator

Nicolò Machiavelli 16th century Italian Historian and statesman

Nicholas of Cusa 15th century German cardinal, philosopher, and administrator

William of Ockham 14th century English Scholastic philosopher

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 16th century Italian composer of liturgical music

Matteo Ricci 16th century Italian founder of the Catholic missions of China

Raphael Semmes 19th century commander in the Confederate States Navy

John Bannister Tabb 19th century American poet and educator

Ludwig Van Beethoven 19th century German composer

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman 19th century Cardinal, first Archbishop of Westminster, England

Giuseppe Verdi 19th century Italian composer

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 19th century Prince of Benevento, Bishop of Autun, French minister and ambassador

Thomas à Kempis 15th century author of the Imitation of Christ

Tomás de Torquemada 15th century Grand Inquisitor of Spain



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