Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...cs and the Spanish Civil War: 1936-1939." The New England Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1971), 100. [4] Juan Francisco de Cardenas, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 01/30/1937, MC78_80.4513. [5] J. David Valaik, "American Catholic Dissenters and the Spanish Civil War." The Catholic Historical Review 53, no. 4 (1968), 732. [6] Spanish

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Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication

...d hold 2,000 people and had rooms for Polish heritage education. On October 16, 1966, 135,000 people attended the dedication ceremony. Among the guests of honor was President Lyndon B. Johnson, who spoke for 25 minutes of history and heritage of Polish Americans, and the need to build “bridges of

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Colleges

...holic institutions of higher learning in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Some were created in response to the increase in the city's population following both the Industrial Revolution and European immigration. Later, as women were given the right to vote in 1920, institutions that had educated young women expanded to include

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behindhalveyslens

...ging landscape of Catholicism in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over the course of a half century....

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