by admin | Feb 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
Although he was born a Presbyterian he had never been baptized. The family he was living with was Catholic. They thought he should be properly blessed, and asked a priest to do so. But when the priest learned the young man had been named “Tecumseh,” in...
by admin | Feb 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
The head of the St. Louis Catholic Archdiocese has put the penalty of interdict on the board members of a historic Catholic Church who do not want to turn over $9-Million worth of Church assets to him. Interdict is similar to excommunication in the Catholic Church. It...
by admin | Jan 30, 2005 | Uncategorized
In May, 1873, a St. Louis priest, old and infirm, dedicated a new riverboat named for him. It was fitting the boat should be named for the priest who often had been carried upriver by its captain and who had referred to the Missouri as “my river.”Ten days...
by admin | Jan 28, 2005 | Uncategorized
Teaching religion in the schools wa a problem long before the United States Supreme Court outlawed prayer in the public schools. Citizens have argued for years the merits of restricting religious instruction to the home or church or whether it should be allowed in the...
by admin | Jan 26, 2005 | Uncategorized
The three Concord stagecoaches, each pulled by six-horse teams, plunged across the prairies. It was 1867, a dangerous time. Indians were about. Calvarymen served as outriders, half a mile on either side of the coaches. The coaches careened through the dust and across...
