Archbishop Ryan

...r Jubilee, 215. [5] Kirlin, Golden Jubilee, 12. [6] Kirlin, Golden Jubilee, 32 & 34. [7] Ryan, His Life and Times, 172 [8] “Dedication of The Roman Catholic High School,” The Catholic Standard, Philadelphia, 09/13/1890 [9] Kirlin, Golden Jubilee, 23. [10] Cowley, Silver Jubilee, 237. [11] Shawn Weldon, 100 Years

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Neumann Canonization

...ause for canonization. In May of 1886, the Diocese of Philadelphia and his order, the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), held the first session to examine the life of John Neumann for evidence of his virtue. Neumann   Canonization in Rome On December 20, 1976, Pope Paul VI

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...English Catholic Opinion and the Spanish Civil War." Church History 56, no. 3 (1987), 368. [3] Donald F. Crosby, "Boston's Catholics and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939." The New England Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1971), 100. [4] Juan Francisco de Cardenas, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 01/30/1937, MC78_80.4513. [5] J. David

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Reverend William McGarvey papers, circa 1900 (MC 5)

...led the Congregation of the Companions of the Holy Saviour. Members of the order commit to vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. McGarvey later left for the Roman Catholic Church after the adoption of the “open pulpit” resolution at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1907. This resolution

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