Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described
Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools
...e.[8] Soon after the opening of Roman Catholic, there were calls to open a similar high school for girls. While a full high school was not feasible at first, the superintendent of schools, Father Philip McDevitt, did open 5 learning centers based out of parishes in the city. [9] The
Catholic Interracial Council
...d organized the Cardinal’s Commission on Human relations, which would have similar aims as the CICP but would be under direct control of the Archdiocese.[20] Spanning three decades, the Interracial council movement had a large impact on the Catholic Church and relations between whites and blacks. The councils sought to
Parish Mapping Project
...C have been working on a parish mapping project. Taking inspiration from a similar project from the Archdiocese of Boston, we have constructed maps of what the parish boundaries used to look like over various times in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's past. The main goal of our mapping project is