American Catholic History

St. Anthony Chapel in Pittsburgh is a remarkable place of pilgrimage containing more than 5,000 relics of saints, the Bl... Read more

St. Mary Cathedral in Galveston is the Mother Church of the Catholic Church in Texas. Tom and Noelle Crowe tell the stor... Read more

From Irish immigrant to gold miner to seminarian in Paris to first bishop of Sacramento, Patrick Manogue was a giant of ... Read more

You may know his name as director of It's A Wonderful Life, but as Tom and Noelle Crowe reveal, Frank Capra was a talent... Read more

Danny Thomas was a Maronite Catholic entertainer. Tom and Noelle discuss how he turned an answered prayer through the in... Read more

Bishop John Dubois is one of the most important figures in American Catholic history that most people don't know. Tom an... Read more

William Grace was an Irish immigrant to the US, founder of a successful company that remains to this day, a generous phi... Read more

An amazing spiral staircase stands in a chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the result of prayers of the nuns who needed it.... Read more

Knute Rockne is one of the greatest college football coaches in history, who revolutionized the modern game and made a n... Read more

The Influenza pandemic of 1918 hit Philadelphia particularly hard, killing up to 16,000 people. Tom and Noëlle Crowe exp... Read more

You may know Fr. Patrick Peyton as the priest who coined the phrase, "The family that prays together, stays together." N... Read more

Bl. Stanley Rother was an Oklahoma farm boy who became a priest and then missionary in Guatemala during the height of it... Read more

Commodore John Barry is known as the Father of the US Navy, its first commissioned officer, and first flag officer. Tom ... Read more

Fr. Leo Heinrichs was a Franciscan martyred during Mass in his Colorado parish in 1908. Tom and Noëlle Crowe reveal the ... Read more

In the late 19th century, Charles Seghers was bishop of Vancouver, then archbishop of Oregon City, but his heart was in ... Read more

Mother Beasley was a free Black woman who married into wealth and then gave it all away as a widow in order to found one... Read more

James Longstreet was a Civil War Confederate general rejected by his former compatriots after the war who eventually bec... Read more

Julia Greeley was a former slave and Catholic convert who lived much of her life after the Civil War. Tom and Noëlle Cro... Read more

Two Catholics--a priest and a layman--were instrumental to the American victory over the British in the Northwest campai... Read more

Pierre Toussaint was a slave brought from Haiti to New York City in the late 1700s, where he became a celebrated and in-... Read more