A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia

..., (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [3]John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, Bishop and First Archbishop of Baltimore, (New York: 1888). [4] Thomas Rzeznik, “Roman Catholic Parishes,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/roman-catholic-parishes/; “A Brief History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia,” Archdiocese of Philadelphia, http://archphila.org/about/. [5]

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Herman Joseph Heuser Papers

...azine, from 1900-1908. He was ordained on February 2, 1876 becoming a full time seminary professor at the time of ordination and teaching at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary for over fifty years. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, both personal and professional with the primary concern being articles in

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Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...age of 57. The article is noteworthy for its praise of a non-Catholic at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was commonplace. Hackett was able to put religious differences aside to work with Catholics and entertain the troops, which the tone of the article seems to imply did not happen too

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...52, MC79 90.164c [11] “Beloved Cardinal Archbishop,” Catholic Standard and Times, September 2, 1960. [12] “Official Press Book Elevation and Investiture His Eminence John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C,” (Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times: 1958) [13] McAvoy, Thomas, Father O’Hara of Notre Dame: The Cardinal-Archbishop of Philadelphia, (Notre Dame: University of Notre

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