Liturgical Week

...lthough not the first Mass to be celebrated facing the congregation in the United States, it was still an unusual sight. While the Mass was still celebrated in Latin, all the lectures and discussions focused on how the Mass of the future would look. The 1963 Liturgical Week proved to

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Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...igious life. Accepting an invitation from one of his uncles to come to the United States in 1859, Prendergast enrolled at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, PA. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop James Frederick Wood on November 17, 1865. Edmond F. Prendergast, circa 1890   Prendergast

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...ics posed a genuine threat. Conspiracy theories of a papal takeover of the United States abounded. A large dimension of the Protestant revival that began in the late 1820s included militant attacks against the Catholic Church which claimed that the Catholic religion was threatening to America’s Protestant culture. Nativists and

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Thomas Lloyd family papers, 1766-1867 (MC 45)

...tes taken in his shorthand. Other accomplishments included working for the United States Treasurer, and reporting George Washington’s first inaugural address, which was published in the Gazette of the United States. Lloyd emigrated from London shortly before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. During the war, he served as a

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