Dr. Louis A. Lambert[7] and Bishop Stephen V. Ryan[8][9] founded The Catholic Union in 1872 in Waterloo, New York.
[11] Editors included Katherine Eleanor Conway and Irish-American community leader and priest Patrick Cronin (1836–1905).
[1] Horace Frommelt was an editor,[13] and Father William P. Solleder a managing director,[14][15] in the early 1940s, and the paper took an anti-war stance.
[16][17] Bishop James McNulty sought a name change in 1963, and a public naming contest resulted in the title Magnificat being adopted.
[18] In March 1966, the body of then editor, Reverend Monsignor Francis J. O'Connor, was found floating in Scajaquada Creek with facial bruises.