Editorial Cartoons

...Church of the Gesu and the Stations of the Cross at St. Peter’s Church in West Brandywine. His cartoons were featured in The Catholic Standard and Times primarily between 1968 and 1976. John James Knudsen (1923-2008) John James Knudsen was the cartoonist for Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ The Tidings and

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Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics

...on the court. Image is in the public domain. Michael Brooks, a graduate of West Catholic Preparatory High School and La Salle University, was named Captain of Men’s Basketball Team to compete at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Brooks and the team never competed in the Olympics because of President

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Marian Year

...Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. Halvey_K409_001 Halvey_K409_002   East and West: a unity of Faith The biggest Philadelphia event was the Marian Congress of the Oriental Church held on October 22, 1954. The congress was a joint celebration between the Exarchate of the Byzantine Rite, the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of

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CORDUM

...unity were conducted in five geographical areas of the city (North, South, West, Germantown and Southwest). Forty parishes were observed in this study. The findings were published in the Spring of 1975 containing six chapters: Worship, Evangelization, Education, Structure and Personnel, Witness and Service, and Finance. Areas that were looked

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