TV and Radio

...duction focused on TV Mass aired on WPVI.[5] In 1981, the office created a new show called Real to Reel. The 30 minute magazine style show sought to “promote gospel values by producing and distributing television programs which educate, challenge, encourage and inspire local audiences by sharing stories of people

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...the founding of the new parish, devoted its coverage to local and national news relating to black Catholics as well as news about black issues in the United States. It also covered news concerning St. Peter Claver. The top of the newspaper's title page read “The Catholic Church is the

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Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General

...cates are large in scale, below is a letter congratulating O'Reilly on his new position as Assistant Surgeon. Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 Letter from War Department, August 5, 1867 A high point in the collection is a scrapbook kept while O’Reilly was abroad serving as a delegate

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Black Catholic periodicals

...pers and journals related to black Catholics. Among these are the earliest newspapers published by and for the black Catholic community. These newspapers also covered issues relating to the African American community in a broader sense. According to Cyprian Davis, author of The History of Black Catholics in the United

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