Catholics in WWII

...s that there were never enough chaplains to go around. In a letter from May 19, 1942, O’Hara stated that they had over 1,000 Catholic chaplains but were in need of 600 more or else risked losing those spots to Protestant chaplains.[6] O’Hara’s letter also included a list breaking down

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...meka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic Standard and Times, June, 14, 1919. [5] Catholic Standard and Times, August 2, 1913. [6] Woman's Progress in Literature, Science, Art, Education and Politics, Vol. 1 No. 1, April, 1893, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8127. [7] Woman's Progress in Literature, Science, Art, Education and Politics, Vol 5 No. 1, June 1895,

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Editorial Cartoons

...d weekly by The Catholic Standard and Times, with his cartoons running from 1953 to 1968. Robert F McGovern (1933-2011) Robert McGovern was an artist from Philadelphia, best known for his woodcarving. Much of his work is featured in Catholic churches around the city, including the altar at the Church

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

...ands of wounded and dying Civil War soldiers from 1862 until the hospital closed 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

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