Parish Mapping Project

...rc parish Another interesting obstacle that we have had to overcome is the change in the landscape and names of places. Many of the locations or names of streets that were used to describe the boundaries of a parish have either been removed or have changed over the years. When

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Reverend William McGarvey papers, circa 1900 (MC 5)

...es and denominations to speak freely in Episcopal churches and was a major change to the Episcopal canon that caused considerable division in the church, and led to other priests leaving for the Roman Catholic Church as well. The Reverend William McGarvey papers contain 4 personal notebooks with handwritten sermon

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Papal Infallibility

...our consciences which are informed by Moral Law and since the pope cannot change Moral Law, there is nothing the pope can do to control our lives as Gladstone feared.[11] Furthermore, for the pope to be infallible it must be on matters of salvation and deal with the whole church,

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Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia

...azine changed its name to The Catholic Weekly Instructor in 1849. With the change of name it also changed from a journal to a newspaper format and began carrying general Catholic and Philadelphia diocesan material in addition to juvenile material. When a new publisher took over the paper in 1850,

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