Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...more letters are from notable figures who helped Shea during his scholarly years. For instance, the collection contains a large file of correspondence between Oscar Wilkes Collet, a writer, scholar, and member of the Missouri Historical Society. Here is a postcard received by Shea requesting help locating research materials. February
A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...lding of Saint Charles Seminary and the establishing of the first diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Herald.[11] By the end of Kenrick’s time as bishop in 1851, the diocese had added 80 churches, 90 priests, and 150,000 Catholics from when the diocese was founded in 1808.[12] [1] Thomas Hughes, History of
Herman Joseph Heuser Papers
...of ordination and teaching at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary for over fifty years. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, both personal and professional with the primary concern being articles in the AER or The Dolphin. Mother Katharine Drexel, Louise Imogen Guiney, Thomas Eakins, Leopold Stokowski, and Oliver Wendell Holmes
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...ic and the Republican forces. Hawks went on to write for numerous Catholic newspapers and journals on the horrors of the war and the need for Catholics to support the Nationalist cause. Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War. Others in the United States who supported the Nationalists during the Civil