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...al Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty historic Catholic newspapers and news agencies from across the country from as early as the 1830s. All

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Irish College, Rome. Transcripts, 1832-1848 (MC 53)

...6. Kirby served as rector for forty-one years from 1850 until he retired in 1891. In 1896, the American Catholic Historical Society’s Archivist, H. T. Henry, traveled to the Irish College in Rome and transcribed letters from American priests and bishops who had corresponded with Cullen and Kirby. Henry published

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Lawrence Francis Flick papers, 1889-1930 (MC 18)

...f Tuberculosis, to educate the public and founded White Haven Sanitarium in 1901. Having a great interest in history, Flick was one of the founders of the American Catholic Historical Society (ACHS) and served as its president for a time. He also helped found the American Catholic Historical Association, and

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Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

...wing on him the title of Monsignor. Monsignor Nolan passed away on February 1, 1995. The collection housed at the Catholic Historical Research Center contains a majority of the research materials used for the Monsignor’s writings. The bulk of those research materials concern Cardinal Dennis Dougherty. You can access the

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