Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...lieved that communism was the antithesis to Christianity and thus the only way to save the soul of the country was to side with those opposing it.[3] The archbishop of Toledo wrote to the American bishops in 1937 asking for support, stating that “the National army is defending the essential

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...of 1952, Bishop O’Hara boarded a train to his new episcopal see. Along the way, the train made stops in Allentown and Bethlehem (then part of the Archdiocese). In both cities, the new archbishop was greeted with much fanfare, with the local Catholic High bands playing upon his arrival and

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Parish Mapping Project

...was to import the current map boundaries to our google maps account. This way we would not have to redraw the boundaries for parishes that have stayed the same since the 1970s. Comparing the 1971 map to the current map shows the areas that have experienced a decrease in the

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

...parties are engaged in it. Even the Washington Union appears to lean that way. This is to sink the names of Democrat and Whig and to form a new Union party. Page 2 Buchanan shares his views on the separation of church and state on the third page: If there

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