Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs

...ount of Ivy Mills,” MC 10 F 14. [11] St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, Octover 14, 1979, PH171 [12] Letter from Edward Sourin, SJ to Mary Brackett Willcox, March 4, 1843, MC 10 Box 1 Folder 5; Letter from Patrick Moriarty, OSA to Mary Brackett Willcox, June 25, 1842, MC

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Alberto Rivera

Alberto Rivera Chick's anti-Catholic comic book series based its stories off the testimony of a man named Alberto Rivera. He claimed to be an ex-Jesuit from Spain, although there is no evidence to support this. Rivera would go on to allege the Catholic Church used the Jesuits as secret police

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Liturgical Week

...857_009 Halvey_P857_008   Keeping the Changes Going Archbishop Krol would continue the themes of change shown during the Liturgical Week in implementing further changes to the Mass. He would celebrate the first Solemn Mass in English in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on November 29, 1964, the first

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...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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