“An Appeal to Truth”

...into a prison: the frontiers are armed against Belgians like a battle front...” (60) 1917 publication of "Their Crimes" Adams and Mirman’s arguments seem to back Cardinal Mercier’s allegations, even going so far as to cite the Cardinal’s letter to Governor General von Bissing (the German Governor General of Belgium

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...lics to sign the Constitution), and George Meade (banker and trustee of Old. St. Mary’s).[1] The group was non-denomination and had members from Catholics to Quakers.[2] The group created a constitution, limiting members to those that were “the descendants of Irish parents by either side in the first degree, and

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Papal Infallibility

...Domenec, “Papal Infallibility: Extracts of a Sermon Preached by the Rt. Rev. M. Domenec, Bishop of Pittsburgh, After His Return from the Vatican Council,(Pittsburgh: Jacob Porter, 1873) ” P001.1398, 10, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8252. [7] Domenec, “Papal Infallibility,” 5. [8] W. E. Gladstone, “The Vatican Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A

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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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