Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...ive to view the whole collection and the Msgr. Hawks slide collection. [1] Santiago Martínez Sánchez, "The Spanish Bishops and Nazism during the Spanish Civil War." The Catholic Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2013), 500. [2] James Flint, ""Must God Go Fascist?": English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War."

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Research guide for parish histories

...896-1991 These provide brief descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the bishop in certain matters pertaining to the administration of the diocese. Information relating to parishes usually consists of votes

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...hospital in a single month. The following month of August saw the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war,

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Black Catholic periodicals

...ce during the last couple decades of the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of

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