The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops . nto them. While Masonic Lodges, Odd Fellows, and secretsocieties of every name and form permeate the wholefabric of society, and are constantly alluring Catholicmen and youth to enter them—cutting themselves off,though they do, from the Chm-ch and its means of grace,by passing their portals — it is evident that the fosteringof associations in which Catholics can
The Catholic churches of New York City, with sketches of their history and lives of the present pastors : with an introduction on the early history of Catholicity on the island, and lives of the most reverend archbishops and bishops . nto them. While Masonic Lodges, Odd Fellows, and secretsocieties of every name and form permeate the wholefabric of society, and are constantly alluring Catholicmen and youth to enter them—cutting themselves off,though they do, from the Chm-ch and its means of grace,by passing their portals — it is evident that the fosteringof associations in which Catholics can and will cometogether for benevolent, literary or other j^m-poses, is oneof the great needs of our time. In such associations each becomes an element ofstiength to his brother, and the whole a tower ofstrength. The Catholic is no longer isolated. He feelsthat he will be sujjported in fidelity to his religion; hebecomes a hundred-fold more deeply interested in hischurch and its interests, in all works of charity, in therelief of the poor; and, above all, he liegins to feel howmuch depends on a sound Catholic education, and whatit behooves every man to do for the maintenance andperfection of oui- system of parochial CHURCH OF ST. BERNARD. 213 REV. GABRIEL A. HEALY, PASTOR OF ST. BERNARDS. THE Rev. Gabriel A. Healy is a native of NewYork City, born October 20th, 1841, and baptizedin its oldest parish — St. Peters. He was of a studioustiun, and after some early training at the school of theCliristian Brothers, in Canal Street, entered the Collegeof St. Francis Xavier, in Fifteenth Street, in 1853, andwent through the course with credit. He was graduatedin 1860, and having determined to embrace the ecclesias-tical state, was sent by the Archbishop to pursue hiscouise of theology in the great seminary of St. Sulpice,Montreal. Havino- here stored his mind with the dogmatic loreand the moral theology, as well as the Scriptural know-ledge and the principles of the canon
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