Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...erse influences and prevent our young men from being ruined physically and spiritually.”[5] The parishes of Archdiocese of Philadelphia raised roughly $25,000 in July 1941 for the USO campaign.[6] Sunday Dinner at the Benedict Club Initially, a total of nine agencies opened USO clubs in Philadelphia, with the Benedict Club
Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people. The 1979 event in Philadelphia would last for a week
Photographs
...ierarchy such as Pope John Paul II's visit to Philadelphia in 1979. Other photos that stand out are Halvey's sports images. Currently the photographs cannot be searched online. If there is something that you would like to have researched, please contact us at archives@chrc-phila.org, or call 215 904-8149. Pope John
Graphics
...cifically our lithograph collection, can be searched on our online catalog. Many of these records do not have images attached. If there is an image that you would like to have researched, please contact us at archives@chrc-phila.org, or call 215-904-8149. The Robert and Theresa Halvey Photograph Collection Packard, Butler and