Victory Mass

...y 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] Ibid. [3] Ibid. [4] Letter

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Monsignor Francis X. Meehan

...g his time as pastor, a new parish center was built in 1991, followed by a new church in 2005. Additionally, Monsignor Meehan expanded lay ministries and groups, establishing a Men’s Bible Study and Evangelization Committee, to name a few. Monsignor Meehan would remain here until 2007, when he retired.

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Day of Great Joy: Sisters of St. Joseph in Philadelphia

...hiladelphia: A Century of Growth and Development, 1847-1947, (Westminster: Newman Press, 1950) 247; P008.725: Congregational Photo Directory: Sisters of St. Joseph, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., 1998 [16] The Catholic Directory of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, 1910 and 1970. Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...lets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to spread his views on important Catholic topics. In one of his pamphlets, he described the war as “a struggle between civilization and communism” and of

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