Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

...James Catholic High School in Chester in 1944 before making the journey up north to Saint Paul, Minnesota three years later. At Saint Paul’s Seminary, he established a masters degree program. Starting in 1954, Reverend Nolan would serve as professor and the Theology Department Chair of Immaculata College. At the

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A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia

...founded in 1808.[12] [1] Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America vol. II, (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1908) 473; Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Directory, (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [2] Archdiocese of Philadelphia Catholic Directory, (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [3]John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most

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...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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Pope

...onal Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade. In response, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. This cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their

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