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Fr. Francis Sampson, the Paratrooper Padre of D-Day
Fr. Francis Sampson was the “paratrooper padre.” He parachuted into Normandy, behind enemy lines, on D-Day, June 6, 1944, along with more than 13,000 other Allied paratroopers. He also was directly involved in the episode that inspired Steven Spielberg’s epic war drama Saving Private Ryan. He hadn’t planned on being a paratrooper when he joined the Army chaplain corps and the Archdiocese for Military Services, but his naiveté about what he had signed up for was a good thing for his men. He was dedicated to their well-being, spiritually and physically. On D-Day, he stayed behind at an aid station in a French village when the rest of the paratroopers he was with moved along to rendezvous with the larger unit. The aid station had 14 men who couldn’t be moved. When the Germans came he was put up against a wall and nearly shot, but a German sergeant recognized he was a priest and his life was spared. Once the Americans retook the village, he and the survivors were evacuated. Eventually he was captured and spent the last few months as a prisoner of war in Germany. After World War II ended, he served in Korea, and then stateside as a chaplain, and eventually the chief of all Army chaplains, before retiring in 1971.
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St. Francis Xavier Cabrini
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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, born two months premature and the youngest of 13 in northern Italy, overcame the odds time and again. She and her sisters of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus made a huge difference for Italian immigrants in the U.S. and elsewhere. She personally founded 67 schools, hospitals, and orphanages in New York, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, Seattle, and other ci...
Edgar Allan Poe and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most important early American wrters. He is known for horror, the macabre, suspense, and other dark themes. Poe was important in the development of science fiction and he invented the detective novel. But what is less well-known is his interesting knowledge of and interest in Catholicism. In an age where typical Protestants either wouldn’t have an idea of what Cath...
Bloody Monday Election Riots
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Election Day, August 6, 1855, is known as Bloody Monday in Louisville, Kentucky. The Know Nothings used violence to try to keep Catholics from voting, and the violence turned into riots. By the end of the day 22 were confirmed dead, though the number of dead was likely over 100. Learn more about this awful day in Louisville, which played a role in Louisville falling behind other cities along th...
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Catholic parents. When he was four his saintly elder brother, Gerard, died tragically. His mother became more devout, but his father abandoned the faith and drank heavily. This childhood trauma affected the rest of his life, and he stopped going to Mass in his teens. After dropping out of college he began to write while in the military. ...
John Boyle O'Reilly
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Born just before the potato famine ravaged Ireland, John Boyle O’Reilly grew up in an Ireland still dominated by England. His father was a schoolmaster, so John and his siblings received an excellent education. He was very outgoing, made friends easily, and was a natural leader. He became a journalist, and then a soldier. He also joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood - the Fenians - who were ...
The North American Martyrs
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Sts. Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil, and John de Lalande were three of the eighte North American Martyrs. In Canada this group is known as the Canadian Martyrs. Rene Goupil was the first to be martyred, earning that crown in 1642 after teaching some Mohawk children how to make the Sign of the Cross in the village of Ossernenon, west of present day Albany, New York. Isaac Jogues, who had been torture...
Bernard Nathanson: Abortion Doctor Convert
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Bernard Nathanson helped co-found NARAL an was responsible for 75,000 abortions, including 5,000 he did with his own hands. But with the advent of advanced imaging technology that allowed a more clear view of the fetus in the womb, he began to realize the humanity of the unborn child, and by the end of the 1970s he had fully accepted that abortion is wrong. He became an ardent pro-life, anti-ab...
Patricia Neal
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Patricia Neal’s Hollywood career began the same year she met Gary Cooper and started an affair with him. That affair had a profound impact on the rest of her life. She had an abortion, and lived with the pain of the relationship gone bad for decades. She married British author Roald Dahl and they had five children. But tragedy struck two of her children and herself, and then Dahl asked for a di...
Gary Cooper
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Gary Cooper was one of the greatest actors in Hollywood history. His strong, understated, good-natured characters established a paradigm, especially for Western heroes. He won two Oscars for Best Actor, while acting in 84 films over 36 years. But his off-screen life wasn’t quite as virtuous and praiseworthy. He had a significant problem with philandering, which continued even after he got marri...
World's Largest Rosary Collection
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Donald Brown wasn't Catholic when he became fascinated with the Rosary. A bad bout of pneumonia when he was young put him in a hospital run by Sisters of Mercy in the early 1900s. In 1917 he began to collect rosaries. In 1929 he became Catholic. Over the decades he collected about 4,000 rosaries before his death in 1975 at 80 years old. His rosaries include some connected to Sister Lucia, one o...
Jean Louis Cheverus - First Bishop of Boston
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Jean Louis Cheverus was a remarkable man and the first bishop of Boston. He was another of the many bishops, priests, and religious who fled France due to the French Revolution and made a tremendous impact on the Church in America. During his 27 years in New England he changed things dramatically. When he arrived, Catholics were a definite minority, and a reviled one at that. But through his ti...
Sister Ignatia and Alcoholics Anonymous
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Sister Ignatia Gavin co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous. She worked in Admissions at St. Thomas hospital in Akron, Ohio. She had compassion for the alcoholics who came to the hospital. However, medical practice at the time did not regard alcoholism as a disease to be treated through admission and medical treatment. In 1939 Sister Ignatia and Dr. Bob Smith managed to get the hospital to admit alcoh...
Venerable Nelson Baker & Our Lady of Victory
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Ven. Nelson Baker was incredible. After a time as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War, he found success in business. He felt a call to the priesthood. He saved lives in and around Lackawanna, just south of Buffalo, New York. He invented direct mail fundraising. He did whatever was needed to build institutions to make others' lives better. And he did it all by relying utterly on the...
Mark Twain and St. Joan of Arc
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Mark Twain considered Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc his best, and his favorite work. He spent twelve years researching for it, and then two years writing. The book was originally published under a pseudonym in serial in Harper's Weekly. His fans and the general public were shocked and confused when they found out that this beautiful, serious, and deeply Catholic book was written by Twain....
St. Mary of Sorrows, Clara Barton, and the Red Cross
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St. Mary of Sorrows, Clara Barton, and the Red Cross
St. Junipero Serra and the California Missions
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St. Junipero Serra and the California Missions
National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche
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National Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche
Kentucky Catholics and Bourbon Whiskey
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Kentucky Catholics and Bourbon Whiskey
The Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption of Mary
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The Baltimore Basilica of the Assumption of Mary
Father Henry Duranquet, SJ: Apostle to the Tombs
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Father Henry Duranquet, SJ: Apostle to the Tombs
Great show. Learned a lot about Gary Cooper. We have a collection of radio dramas of classic films featuring Gary Cooper in this playlist. These include The Pride of the Yankees, The Westerner, The Virginian, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Prisoner of Shark Island, Casanova Brown, Northwest Mounted Police and more! ua-cam.com/video/KelvlB9sqIc/v-deo.html
"Samuel, you have spoken well of me"
Went to Mass here today
I read that they asked Rene Auberjonois, the original Mulcahy in the movie, if he wanted to continue in the role but he declined. He didn't think the TV show would go anywhere! That's why Gary Burghoff's the only original actor to continue in the TV show. And yeah, Mulcahy's one of the best characters! I don't mind Rene Auberjonois, but I think William Christopher was the better one for the role, as you said early in this video. (MASH is one of my very favorite shows so I know every scene you were talking about!)
Fr. Mulcahy was always my favorite character! Nice podcast.
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You mentioned that his son who did was called Kit Carson Cody. Kit Carson was also a convert of Catholicism, and loved his faith. He was one of the greatest fur traders, and scouts in American history. It would be great to have a Kit Carson, or even a "Catholic Mountain Man" episode: Jim Bridger, Tom Tobin, etc. Also a great priest and missionary of that time to the native and the mountain man was Fr. Pierre-Jean de Smet. He would also be a great episode.
Thank you for you episode on Bob Newhart. I would love see episodes on Danny Thomas (connection to the children's hospital), and Tim Conway. Both were devout catholics.
Thank you for uploading this for viewing, much needed.
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All these false religions we’re put upon us in slavery! Deurt:28:68 part of the curses upon the Israelites and is the entire book of deurt: read these curse and you should identify whom the people are! We lost our heritage meaning our land our names our identity, cause we as a people weren’t allowed to read or write for 360 in this captivity that we are still in this very day! Cause we we’re never free but only allowed to be let off plantations only to go through another 100 n something years up under oppression n never set back in our own land! Deurt 28:68 talks about going into Egypt again Egypt means house of bondage, slavery! But this time with ships 🚢! And once you get off those ship’s you w shall be sold unto your enemies for bondsmen and bondswoman and no man shall buy you, meaning redeem you! And you will worship other gods that your fathers have not known, and he shall put a yoke of iron around thy neck until he hath destroyed thee! Look on google yoke of iron around necks the only people you’ll see are the so called African Americans!
Net result was that eventually public schools were all integrated, and bigots could pay extra to send kids to Whites Only Parochial schools.
Hello. Are you familiar with Jack Chick materials about the connection between the Catholic Church and the KKK?
Oh sure, he made lots of crazy claims about the Church. The idea that the Church is connected to the KKK in some supportive manner is hilarious, even by Chick's standards, considering the KKK was the descendant of the horribly "Know Nothings" of the mid-1800s, and one of the most motivated opponents of the KKK in many places were Catholics. Check out the interactions between the KKK and students from Notre Dame. Or what a KKK leader did to Father James Coyle in Birmingham, Alabama in 1921. If there's any "connection" between the two, it was oppositional: the KKK hated the Church, and the Church opposed its goals and actions.
@@americancatholichistory7536I’m not even Catholic but yeah, the Catholic Church literally sent forces to fight the KKK in Mexico before.
haha! You got schooled!
@@johnpabst6101 no need to be so mean
I feel I should also mention, St. Mary of Agreda is the author of a incredible account of her visions in "The Mystical City of God"
Thanks for putting this up here. I had listened to this episode when SQPN posted it on Spotify but I picked up on a couple of details this time that I missed before.
Of course! And just FYI, SQPN has taken down their American Catholic History podcast channel, but we have put our own up there, with the same logo (minus the SQPN part, as on this channel). If you'd like to follow us there, here's the link: open.spotify.com/show/1f3YJG4D0CPH0xBERuU6pq
Woohoo! A new episode! 🎉
Thanks for listening! We put out another new episode today, we hope you enjoy!
I’m sorry to write here you had no place to contact under about. Could you do a story on The Ursuline Convent riots occurred 1834, in Charlestown, Massachusetts?
That is on the list for future episodes. Thanks for listening!
Mom! You are going to thoroughly enjoy this channel. Plus it’s an easy road to share with others who were practicing Catholic in the past.
Love it! And I was there! Thank you Noelle and Tom!
Thank you, Father! And we were so blessed to have you on that pilgrimage!