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He was born on November 22, 1801 in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, the son of an educated Italian refugee, Louis Pise, who married Marguerite Gamble, member of an old Philadelphia family.
Charles was sent to Georgetown College, where in 1815 he joined the Jesuits and attracted the notice of Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, by Latin verses written for the Commencement of 1819. In 1820 he withdrew and was sent by Maréchal to Rome. Returning a year later, he completed his theological course at Mount St. Mary's, Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Ordained by Maréchal, March 19, 1825, he taught rhetoric at the "Mount, " served as a curate in the cathedral at Baltimore, and as an assistant at St. Patrick's Church in Washington, where he gained a reputation as a preacher of polished sermons. During these years, he wrote "Celara, " a poem of the fifteenth century; a Latin elegy on Pius VII; and "Montezuma, " a drama in three acts, which was presented by the students of Mount St. Mary's in 1824. These remained in manuscript, but in addition, he published an apologetic novel, Father Rowland (1829), which was well received in religious circles; The Indian Cottage, A Unitarian Story (1829), in defense of the divinity of Christ, which was reprinted serially in the Catholic Expositor (1842); and History of the Church from Its Establishment to the Present Century (1827 - 30), which was never completed beyond the beginning of the sixteenth century.
In 1832 he revisited Europe. At Rome, he received on examination the doctorate in divinity, and was dubbed a Knight of the Sacred Palace and Count Palatine by Gregory XVI. At the same time he was created a Knight of the Holy Roman Empire.
On his return to Washington, he was nominated by Henry Clay, who was rather generally supported politically by the old American Catholic element, for the chaplaincy of the United States Senate, and was duly elected, December 11, 1832, despite an intense nativist opposition in press and pulpit to his creed and foreign honors.
A temporary pastor at Annapolis (1833), he was called by Bishop John Dubois to New York in 1834, where he labored in the parish of St. Joseph's, rent at the time by trusteeism, until he was appointed an assistant to Dr. John Power at St. Peter's Church in 1840. Two years later he went abroad to collect funds for the orphanage connected with St. Peter's, armed with a letter of introduction from President Tyler to American representatives in Europe.
While in Ireland, he came under the influence of Father Theobold Mathew and returned an ardent temperance worker and a friend of the Irish immigrant.
His literary labors did not slacken. With Felix Varela, with whom he was earlier associated as a founder of the ephemeral Protestant Abridger and Expositor (1832), he launched in 1841 The Catholic Expositor and Literary Magazine. Among his books were The Pleasures of Religion and Other Poems (1833), dedicated to Washington Irving; Aletheia, or, Letters on the Truth of Catholic Doctrine (1843, reprinted 1894); a eulogistic biography, Saint Ignatius and His First Companions (1845) and others.
He died in Brooklyn.
Charles Constantine Pise was the first (and, to date, only) Roman Catholic United States Senate Chaplain, coming into that office on December 11, 1832. He was the author of famous work History of the Church from Its Establishment to the Present Century, this study offered the best Catholic account of the church in English and was certainly the most extended literary work achieved by an American Catholic up to that time. Besides, he built the church of St. Charles Borromeo in Brooklyn.
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A Southerner to the core, he was saddened by the Civil War, though his loyalty de jure could not be questioned.
As a brilliant lecturer, Pise had considerable vogue, but as a critic he was too kindly, just as he was less effective as a controversialist because he was gentle and never acrimonious.
