Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters

...es of many throughout the city and keep the worst pandemic from being even more deadly. SB-10, April 7, 1917- Feb. 12, 1920, CHRC For more information on the Spanish Flu and the archdiocese's response visit our digital exhibit "The Spanish Lady in the City of Brotherly Love: The Archdiocese

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Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...nd Building Committee, was on the Board of Trustees of the Clerical Fund, among other activities, and directed the Catholic Total Abstinence Society and St. Vincent de Paul Society, among other activities. In addition to his duties at St. Malachy's, he was named vicar general of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia

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Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee

...tholic Standard and Times, 05/24/1940, 2. [17] “Text of Bishop O’Hara’s Sermon,” Catholic Standard and Times, 06/07/1940, 9. Archives Archives Select Month June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 December 2024 October 2024 July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023

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The Church and Labor

...icals echoing the calls of Rerum Novarum, such as Pope Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno (Latin for Forty Years). Quadragesimo Anno further expended on the idea that the God given right to private property should be directed to the common good and that "Capital cannot do without Labor, nor Labor Capital."[3]

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