Colleges
...xamining the founding of the ten Catholic colleges reveals the changing history of the city of Philadelphia. Explore the exhibit on our Omeka site: https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/exhibits/show/colleges...
behindhalveyslens
...ging landscape of Catholicism in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over the course of a half century....
Martin I. J. Griffin papers, 1842-1950 (MC 8)
...assistant editor to the newly established Catholic Standard and Times, the official Philadelphia diocesan newspaper, from 1870 to 1873. Griffin founded the American Catholic Historical Society in 1884 and served as its secretary. He also belonged to several other historical associations, including the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Society of
Papal Infallibility
...ic Church, such as from St. Francis de Sales in the 1500s, declaring it an official dogma created new tensions with Protestants and secular governments. The decrees and canons issued by the First Vatican Council in 1870 laid out the argument for the existence of Papal Infallibility. The Council declared