Research guide for parish histories
...n contained in the Consultors' Minute Books. The files also contain Spiritual/Pastoral Reports after 1953. The parish files may also contain copies of articles concerning the parishes, especially if they closed. Parish files after 1930 are closed to researchers except by special permission from the Chancery. Visual materials CHRC
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...losed in 1865. Nurses and staff The 12-acre site where the Satterlee Hospital was located in West Philadelphia, bounded roughly by 40th to 44th Streets, from Spruce to Pine Streets, was at that time very rural, far removed from the cramped and crowded conditions of urban Philadelphia. The 'pure country
Black Catholic periodicals
...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 Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ert and Teresa Halvey Photograph Collection. Currently in the inventory cataloging stages, the ultimate goal is to digitize the entire collection and make the images available online. For over sixty years, Robert Halvey served as a freelance photographer for the Catholic Standard and Times, often as a volunteer. His career