Newman Centers

..., which was greater than the total number of students attending the five local Catholic Colleges.[5] It should be noted that at this time two different Catholic organizations operated at the University of Pennsylvania. First was the Catholic Student’s Organization Committee (replaced the defunct Newman Club), and the second was

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...ress, 1975; O'Toole, James M. The Faithful: A History of Catholics in America. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008; Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Our faith-filled heritage : The church of Philadelphia bicentennial as a diocese 1808-2008. Strasbourg : Editions du Signe, 2007. PAHRC has a significant number of

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The Bishop’s Bank

...stitution but also of its individual depositors. The Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center holds the ledgers and journals of the Bishop's bank. The ledger books contain the individual accounts for each depositor, and serve as a rich source of historical information. In addition to account information, they include notations on

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

..., France) along with letters from Herman Joseph Heuser, editor of The American Ecclesiastical Review, referencing the letters from Geoffroy. Letter from Theophile Geoffroy, dated January 6, 1921 It seems that Kite had sent some of Geoffroy’s letters, along with a short article written by her, to The American Ecclesiastical

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