Archbishop John Carroll

...ierarchy were threatened by schism from Philadelphia. With the creation of new dioceses in 1808, the now Archbishop Carroll, was in charge of organizing the governance of the new hierarchy. For Philadelphia, Carroll recommended Michael Egan, who would be made the city’s first bishop. Carroll would call together a provincial

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Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish

...and schoolrooms on the next two. On July 2, the first Mass was said in the new building. Work continued on the classrooms which would be ready for September 1923. When the new building opened, attendance had increased to nearly 400 children and would grow to over 600 by 1932.

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...husetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. Almost nothing is known about why the company chose to specialize in church lithographs or how they solicited business or performed the execution of

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“An Appeal to Truth”

...s which we call criminal, it is to the honour and the national interest of Germany to confute us.” (9) Additionally, this statement places the German Bishops in a precarious position because if they do not accept the public trial then it could be argued that they did not rise

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