NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Jim Thorpe had never run a competitive race in his life. Nor had he participated in any other track and field events. But that didn’t stop him from attempting the high jump one afternoon in 1907 and beating everyone on his school’s team. Thorpe jumped on a whim. He was walking past the team as they practiced and thought he could do better. When he proved himself right, the team’s coach, Glenn “Pop” Warner ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! When Stephen Badin entered seminary in his native France, he didn’t know that revolution soon would come to his country and, along with it, a hatred for the Catholic Church. Nor did he know that in 1791, while still a seminarian, he would flee to America with two companions—-the Fathers (and future bishops) Joseph Flaget and J. B. David. And he most certainly didn’t know that on May 25, 1793, he would recei ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! The bishops of the United States wanted a school, but not just any school. They wanted a research university, where both clergy and laity could pursue advanced studies in theology, philosophy, and other fields of knowledge that intersected with faith and morals. The bishops discussed the idea for such a university at the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866. They approved the idea at the Third Plenar ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Stories—by the early 19th century, that’s all that remained of the early French Jesuits and their missions among the Iroquois. Some tribes hadn’t seen the men they called “Black Robes” for more than a century. But they still told stories about the priests and the God they proclaimed. In 1823, some of those Iroquois married into the Salish tribe and repeated the stories of the Black Robes to their new brothe ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // The Archdiocese of San Francisco, California in May is holding a Holy Hour for persecuted Chinese Christians, which will be followed by a presentation about Jimmy Lai, a Chinese Catholic and human rights activist currently on trial in Hong Kong.  Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will be presiding over the Holy Hour and leading a rosary, praying especially for Cardinal Joseph Zen and Jimmy Lai, on May 8 at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California. Immediately following the Holy Hour, Lai’s godfather and noted Wall Street Journal columnist William McGu ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! James Farl Powers wanted to write stories that “even God would like.” “I think it’s possible to write something…that is worthy of God’s attention,” he explained. “Not as a soul seeking salvation, but just as entertainment for God.” That quest resulted in one of the -mid-20th century’s most acclaimed bodies of fiction. Flannery O’Connor described Powers as “one of the country’s finest story writers,” and his ..read more

Jennifer Sey, a former star gymnast, filmmaker and Levi Strauss & Co. Brand President, is starting her own clothing brand in support of women’s sports: XX-XY Athletics. In doing so, Sey hopes to make it fashionable to defend the differences between men and women. She is teaming up with retired collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines and others in the effort to prevent “transgender” men from participating in women’s athletics. Sey was a seven-time member of the U.S. Women’s National Artistic Gymnastics Team and was the 1986 U.S. Women’s All-Around National Champion. Her first memoir, “Chalked Up ..read more

CV NEWS FEED // In his final article for The Irish Rover, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus W. Joseph DeReuil issues a blistering reflection on Notre Dame’s treatment of journalists at the student-run publication, and makes an exciting announcement about his future.  “Notre Dame is dead,” stated Dereui in his April 24 article, “A Requiem for Notre Dame.” He continued: “That is, she has been killed in the eyes of the large swaths of American Catholics who have populated her quads since her founding in 1842.” Widely regarded as one of The Irish Rover’s most pioneering and controversial Editors-in-C ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Some little boys dream of becoming explorers. Others dream of becoming priests. Father Jacques Marquette was one of the lucky few who grew up to become both. Born in France in 1637, Marquette first pursued his dream of religious life, entering the Jesuits at 17. Twelve years later, in 1666, Marquette’s Superiors sent the newly ordained priest across the Atlantic to evangelize the indigenous peoples of the A ..read more

NOTE: Enjoy this excerpt from The American Daily Reader, by CatholicVote president Brian Burch and Emily Stimpson Chapman. To order the complete volume, visit the CatholicVote store today! Dr. John McLoughlin’s General Store was a site thousands of Americans once dreamed of seeing. To arrive at its doors was to arrive at the last stop on the Oregon Trail. McLoughlin, however, was more than just a general store owner in Oregon City. Born in Quebec and baptized Catholic (but raised Anglican), McLoughlin worked for 11 years as the staff doctor at Fort William in Ontario before the North West Fur ..read more