Cartooning Catholics

...oning Catholics: Depictions of Catholics in Cartoons and Comics exhibit is open to the public through October 2020. Cartooning Catholics examines how Catholics were portrayed in secular drawings and how Catholics portrayed their own beliefs through cartoons. Cartoons are a unique window into the past because they both express and

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Neumann Canonization

...int Francis. It was not long after his death that calls were being made to open his cause for canonization. In May of 1886, the Diocese of Philadelphia and his order, the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Redemptorists), held the first session to examine the life of John Neumann

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...publication, Women’s Progress. Together the journal and the correspondence open a window into these important Catholic activists. The Campbell family were booksellers based in Germantown and largely involved in the intellectual life of Philadelphia. Jane and Marianne’s father was active in the labor movement and their brothers were founding members

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