Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication

...Halvey_T201_010   New Shrine Built The chapel became a popular pilgrimage site for Polish Americans and soon plans were made for a new larger shrine. Atop of Beacon Hill in Doylestown, ground would be broken on August, 23, 1964. The shrine would be completed in time for the Polish Millennium

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Liturgical Music and Peter LaManna

...the Mass. In teaching at the Seminary, he instructed his students in both official teachings on liturgical music as well as pastoral implications. One thing that LaManna stressed in his classes was that secular music was not permitted at any liturgical service in the Archdiocese. Dr. LaManna continued to serve

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Martin I. J. Griffin papers, 1842-1950 (MC 8)

...assistant editor to the newly established Catholic Standard and Times, the official Philadelphia diocesan newspaper, from 1870 to 1873. Griffin founded the American Catholic Historical Society in 1884 and served as its secretary. He also belonged to several other historical associations, including the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Society of

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Papal Infallibility

...ic Church, such as from St. Francis de Sales in the 1500s, declaring it an official dogma created new tensions with Protestants and secular governments. The decrees and canons issued by the First Vatican Council in 1870 laid out the argument for the existence of Papal Infallibility. The Council declared

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