Alliance of Catholic Women

...recipients were members of the new formed Medical Mission Sisters.[7] The scholarship was discontinued in the 1950s because the constant increase in tuition outpaced the endowment. The Alliance and the college even went to court over the fund in the 1930s. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that if there were

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Misericordia Hospital

...r 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 December 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...pal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to believe that America’s Protestant culture was at

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Digital Collections

...the majority of which relate to Irish American history. ACHS material can be found here and CHRC Historic Papers can be found here. The Catholic Historical Research Center's oral history program, which focuses on the life histories of retired Diocesan priests, serves to fill gaps in the historical record. Excerpts

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