The Church and Labor

...ajor problem since the papal encyclicals taught “no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.”[8] Indeed, many priests and bishops called for the creation of unions with a religious foundation in order to better “restore all things in Christ.”[9] Other theologians, worked on

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Joseph M. Corrigan papers, 1896-1942 (MC 25)

...aymen’s Weekend Retreat League, also known as the Men of Malvern. The same year that he became rector of St. Charles, Corrigan was made a domestic prelate by Pope Pius XI. His elevation to the episcopacy came in 1940. This collection contains correspondence as well as some of Corrigan’s sermons,

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Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication

...ound would be broken on August, 23, 1964. The shrine would be completed in time for the Polish Millennium in 1966, which celebrated the thousands years since the Christianization of Poland in 966. The new Our Lady of Czestochowa church could hold 2,000 people and had rooms for Polish heritage

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A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia

..., (Philadelphia: CatholicPhilly.com, 2018). [3]John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, Bishop and First Archbishop of Baltimore, (New York: 1888). [4] Thomas Rzeznik, “Roman Catholic Parishes,” The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/roman-catholic-parishes/; “A Brief History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia,” Archdiocese of Philadelphia, http://archphila.org/about/. [5]

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