Liturgical Week

...o featured exhibit spaces at the Civic Center. Exhibits included displays and stands presented by various Catholic organizations, as well as art interpreting new themes of Vatican II. Halvey_P857_007 Halvey_P857_009 Halvey_P857_008   Keeping the Changes Going Archbishop Krol would continue the themes of change shown during the Liturgical Week in

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Newman Centers

...olic Student’s Organization Committee (replaced the defunct Newman Club), and the second was the Guild of St. Luke, St Cosmas, and St Damian, which was a Catholic medical organization for both professionals and students. Other Newman clubs would begin to open in Philadelphia area schools, including Temple and Drexel as

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...ch in the United States. World events, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...al that members had to wear. Features St. Patrick on one side and America and Ireland with Liberty on the other. On Dec 17, 1781, the society decided to add George Washington to the group; however, they wanted to make him more than an honorary member. So the Friendly Sons

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