Episodes about "south"

The Catholic Kentucky Pilgrimage Announcement

The Catholic Kentucky Pilgrimage Announcement

A special announcement: In 2021, Tom & Noëlle Crowe will lead a pilgrimage to important sites in American Catholic History in Kentucky, including several distilleries in the home of Bourbon that are part of that history.
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Kentucky Catholics and Bourbon

Kentucky Catholics and Bourbon

Catholic families from Maryland moved to the Kentucky frontier where they established the Church and helped make Bourbon a thing.

Mother Beasley

Mother Beasley

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 of the first Catholic religious orders for Black women in the US. Tom and Noelle Crowe tell the story of this courageous woman who also defied the law to educate enslaved children and spent her life serving others.
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Daniel Rudd

Daniel Rudd

Born a slave before the Civil War, Daniel Rudd was a Catholic journalist, who was the first black man to own a national newspaper of any kind.

Father Peter Whelan: The Angel of Andersonville

Father Peter Whelan: The Angel of Andersonville

Fr. Peter Whelan was an elderly Irish priest in Georgia and South Carolina who brought Christ to the sick and imprisoned during the Civil War. Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell how brought Christ to both Confederate POWs in the North, and Union POWs at the most notorious prison camp in the South, Andersonville.
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St. Mary’s, Galveston

St. Mary’s, Galveston

In 1900, the Cathedral of St. Mary’s, Galveston was the only Catholic church to survive the great hurricane which killed 20% of Galveston’s population.

The Martyrs of La Florida

The Martyrs of La Florida

Over the span of about 200 years, up to 1,000 Catholic missionaries and natives, were martyred in what is now the US Southeast.

James Longstreet

James Longstreet

James Longstreet was a Civil War Confederate general rejected by his former compatriots after the war, who eventually became Catholic.

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille

Henriette DeLille was a woman of mixed race in antebellum New Orleans who rejected the placage system and founded an order that educated the children of slaves