The Story of Duffy’s Cut

...ent, future president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, using track ballast from the old rail line Years later, in 2002, Rev. J. Francis Watson, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, found an old Pennsylvania Railroad file among the possessions of their grandfather, Joseph Tripician. The file talked about the deaths of

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Recap of “To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students” Grant Program!

...ed, To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students, brought students, staff, and chaperones to the CHRC for a two-hour plus+ program. Through April and May of 2019, the CHRC, located in Northeast Philadelphia in the former Our Lady of Ransom School, had 572 seventh and eighth

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Digital Collections

...merican Catholic Historical Society, the majority of which relate to Irish American history. ACHS material can be found here and CHRC Historic Papers can be found here. The Catholic Historical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life histories of retired Diocesan priests, serves to fill gaps in

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Alliance of Catholic Women

...ting families with holiday meals.[11] Every year the Alliance would also host Christmas parties for children of struggling families, where they would give out hundreds of new toys.[12] In 1953, the Alliance of Catholic Women faced new competition from the newly formed Ladies of Charity of Philadelphia, which unlike the

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