catholic Brooklyn and The Tablet
One hundred years ago today … The Tablet was (still is) a weekly Brooklyn paper addressing Catholic issues and a Catholic perspective for the borough’s immense Catholic population. Here is its April 17 front page:
Newspapers.com
The Tablet was launched in Brooklyn in 1908 under the approving eye of Charles Edward McDonnell, the Bishop of the Brooklyn Diocese (Dioecesis Bruklyniensis et Reginae), a position he held until his death in 1921.
Charles Edward McDonnell, 1914. WikiCommons.
Cathedral Basilica of Saint James. New York Public Library, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.
The Diocese Cathedral is the Cathedral Basilica of St. James, built in 1903, and shown here in its earliest known photograph, from 1929.
The building still stands.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, APRIL 17, 2020
Tags: Catholicism, The Tablet, St. James, Brooklyn, religion. Charles Edward McDonnell