Carmelite Monastery

...ladelphia from Boston in order to establish a monastery. Recently, a large number of Philadelphians had applied to enter the Boston Carmel, so the community saw the City of Brotherly Love as a new home for the contemplative order. They were accompanied by Mother Beatrix of the Holy Spirit (Camilla

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Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find

...ars, Redpath wrote numerous articles and delivered lectures throughout the United States supporting the cause of Irish land reform and, eventually, Irish freedom. Reacting to the pro-English stance of most American newspapers concerning Ireland, in July 1882 Redpath bought the New York based newspaper McGee’s Illustrated Weekly from its publisher,

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Drexel Beatification

...eliminating the Promotor of the Faith (Devil’s Advocate) and reducing the number of miracles required for canonization from three to two. The first step in the process was to examine all of Katharine Drexel’s writings and interview as many people who knew her as possible. On January 26, 1987, she

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...ics posed a genuine threat. Conspiracy theories of a papal takeover of the United States abounded. A large dimension of the Protestant revival that began in the late 1820s included militant attacks against the Catholic Church which claimed that the Catholic religion was threatening to America’s Protestant culture. Nativists and

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