Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute

...ages.[9] The second part developed out of the Philopatrians funding of the Good Shepard nuns’ canning plant. This grew into the creation of the Catholic Institutional Cooperative Association.[10] The purpose of the Cooperative was to take the bulk foodstuff and have it canned for future use to further help Catholic

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...y joined forces to calm tensions in the inner city. Msgr. Devlin was later appointed Director of the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one time we were up there and I

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Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish

...te Heart of Mary called to see me with reference to the future school she happened to notice this wretched building. “there’s your school,” she exclaimed. I was dumbfounded. She gathered up her skirts and went over the premises, even going up to the top of the third floor. She

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Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find

...newspaper devoted primarily to Ireland and social reform may have limited appeal, so he tried to broaden its readership by including humorous pieces, domestic and foreign news blurbs, sheet music, poems and serialized novels. At times the paper also included a Boys and Girls Department and a Ladies Department. Section

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