Our Lady of Czestochowa Dedication
...opular pilgrimage site for Polish Americans and soon plans were made for a new larger shrine. Atop of Beacon Hill in Doylestown, ground 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
Eden Hall
...three other women consecrated themselves to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The new order's charism would be the education of girls, with Mother Barat declaring "how seldom are valiant women to be found! The Bible says that they are more precious than pearls and diamonds. Let us, then, labor with
Jubilees and Holy Years
...s of believers be for our world a leaven of authentic hope, a harbinger of new heavens and a new earth (cf. 2 Pet 3:13), where men and women will dwell in justice and harmony, in joyful expectation of the fulfilment of the Lord’s promises. Archives Archives Select Month June
An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...r 5, 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment. [1] Michael deHaven Newsom, “Some Kind of Religious Freedom: National Prohibition and the Volstead Act’s Exemption for The Religious Use of Wine,” Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 70, issue 3, 2005, 746. [2] John A Ryan, Prohibition: Yes or No, (New