Eden Hall
...s. Let us, then, labor with all our might to train such women, at whatever cost to ourselves." Image of the property boundaries of the "Institute of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart" from "Atlas of the City of Philadelphia. 23rd & 41st Wards from Actual Surveys and Official Plans."
Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...German Catholics in America (Correspondence 120). Bishop Kenrick provided money to aid a new German parish in Philadelphia (Nolan 252) and allowed for the publication of a Catholic newspaper in German. A page from Kenrick's journal that mentions the establishment of the Catholic newspaper for Germans. It was also interesting
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Mills in 1726, which would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the United States.[3] The Willcox’s were a pioneering Catholic family in the area and were responsible for creating what would later become St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in 1729. This mission, based out of
Education
...ls (schools run by a parish) and attempts by politicians to use government money to fund these schools caused concern that public schools would be completely replaced. “The American River Ganges. The priests and the children,” December, 30, 1871 One of Nast’s most famous cartoons, “The American River Ganges,” depicts