Faith and Fury
Pete Socks
August 22, AD2019
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The American Civil War has always been one of the times in history that I have had a keen and vested interest in. Being raised
Father Thomas Ewing Sherman, SJ
Donald R. McClarey
August 11, AD2017
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Abraham Lincoln said that “A House divided against itself cannot stand”. Thomas Ewing Sherman was born into a House divided by religion on October 12,
Nuns of the Battlefield
Donald R. McClarey
November 10, AD2016
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Visitors to Washington DC might be surprised at first to encounter a monument, across from Saint Mathew’s Cathedral, to nuns and sisters entitled Nuns of the
Abraham Lincoln and the Catholic Church
Donald R. McClarey
September 14, AD2015
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On July 4, 1864 Abraham Lincoln had much to pre-occupy his mind. Grant’s drive on Richmond had bogged down into a stalemated siege to the
Make the Sign of the Cross and Go In!
Donald R. McClarey
April 20, AD2015
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Outside of his family, General William S. Rosecrans had three great passions in his life: His religion, Roman Catholicism, to which he had converted as
Jefferson Davis and Pio Nono
Donald R. McClarey
September 9, AD2014
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Jefferson Davis was always a friend to Catholics. In his youth as a boy he studied at the Saint Thomas School at the Saint Rose
The Priest of the Confederate Prison in Andersonville
Donald R. McClarey
May 20, AD2014
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I normally take great pride in being an American, but there are passages in our history which all Americans should be ashamed of. During our