The Church and Labor

...to go on strike. In “the Church the Champion of the Working Man,” Father M.F. Hennelly argued that for a strike to be just it must first use all other means to revolve the dispute and that the potential benefits must outweigh the suffering that the strike can impose on

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...newspaper and neighborhood newspaper The Kensington Critic. He was then a U.S. Army photographer during World War II, for which he received a Legion of Merit, and later a staff photographer for Pennsylvania Hospital. Having never discarded a photo, the collection contains negatives from the entirety of Halvey’s career, from

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Newspapers & Periodicals

...d in 1886 to collect material documenting the history of Catholicism in the United States.   Search the collection via our online catalog.    ...

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Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia

...n microfilm from June 22, 1872 through November 15, 1873. The Catholic Weekly Instructor in hard copy for the following issues. Many are in poor condition. 1849: Jan. 13. 1851: May 3; Sept. 20; Dec. 13. 1852: Apr. 30; Sept. 4, 25; Nov. 13. 1853: May 21; Jun. 18, 25;

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