Victory Mass

...ems/show/6875 For more on the Victory Mass visit the archives for our scrapbook collection, which has numerous newspaper articles and ephemera on the event. [1] Letter from Cardinal Dougherty to Parish Priest, October 12, 1942. SB-36 June 1942-Dec. 1942; 101. Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [2]

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Medical Mission Sisters

...J. Dougherty and Anna M. Dengel: The Missionary Alliance." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101, no. 1/2 (1990): 22. [3] Lou Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in Fox Chase: Medical Mission Sisters Celebrate 70 years,” http://catholicphilly.com/2009/10/news/at-motherhouse-in-fox-chase-medical-mission-sisters-celebrate-70-years/. [4] Christine Schenk, “Becoming a Worldwide Church with Members Who Love One

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Newspapers & Periodicals

...ic newspapers in the United States. These newspapers were collected by the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia which was founded in 1886 to collect material documenting the history of Catholicism in the United States. The newspaper collection contains Catholic newspapers from throughout the United States as well as some

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Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee

...Letter from Hugh Lamb to the priests of the Archdiocese, 05/15/1940, Scrapbook, 1990.284; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8243. [10] Letter from Hugh Lamb to the priests of the Archdiocese, 01/02/1940, Scrapbook, 1990.284, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8248. [11] Service Regulations for Pontifical Field Mass Philadelphia Transportation Company, Bob 13 f 1, 1990.284, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8249. [12] Philadelphia...

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