Independent history project by @NicoFassino. Exploring Catholic history through the untold and forgotten experiences of the laity across the centuries.
@jdflynn This is something I wrote about at more length in an article last year
This is a story about the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884, the American bishops famously ordered the creation of a standard, national catechism (later known as the Baltimore Catechism).
In 1955, the United States began building McMurdo Station on Ross Island in Antarctica.
“ ‘The Cathedral of Paris,’ said the papal legate, Cardinal Eudes de Chateauroux, ‘was largely built with the farthings of old women.’ ”
It is one of the most original, interesting, and moving prayer books I have ever encountered.
2⃣ Rev. John Francis Laboon, SJ appointed as first naval chaplain for a US nuclear missile submarine, 1959
"... and never his missal he reads"
Unlike most missals, which focused on offering commentary, notes, and context for the various sundays and feasts of the ecclesiastical year...
Several years ago, a childhood Christmas letter from Ratzinger and his sister were found:
Published by The Catholic Press of Chicago, it was clearly intended to be a new, major "flagship" missal property which was chock full of selling-point features.
