Liturgical Week

...es at the Civic Center. Exhibits included displays and stands presented by various Catholic organizations, as well as art interpreting new themes of Vatican II. Halvey_P857_007 Halvey_P857_009 Halvey_P857_008   Keeping the Changes Going Archbishop Krol would continue the themes of change shown during the Liturgical Week in implementing further changes

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Citation Information

...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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The Church and Labor

...uch as calling for labor unions and living wages.[2] The impact of Rerum Novarum would ripple throughout the years. Successive popes would issue their own encyclicals 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

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Digital Collections

...lections CHRC has a large number of items that have been digitized through various digitization projects, partnerships, patron research requests, and social media initiatives. We endeavor to provide standardized descriptive practices and open access to this growing collection over the web. CHRC's Omeka site features a growing set of digitized

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