Research

...rtment. The reference services offered by the Catholic Historical Research Center are designed to accommodate requests for access to information found in our holdings while ensuring the long-term preservation of the collections and the protection the individuals' privacy. If you are unable to visit the Archives in person we do

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Pope visit

...Rounding out the morning, was a Mass for Clergy and Religious at the Civic Center, where Pope John Paul II stated that the Eucharist “shows itself to be the source and the sum of all evangelization. ” Afterwards, he returned to the airport to fly to his next stop Des

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CORDUM

..., CORDUM was disbanded. The collection at the Catholic Historical Research Center contains various drafts of sub-committee reports and of the final report from 1975. Also included are various correspondence between members of the Committee and meeting minutes from the sub-committees. https://archives.chrc-phila.org/repositories/2/resources/50# Collection processed and blog created by Richard Girkin

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Mary Brackett Willcox papers, 1807-1864 (MC 10)

...tholic community in the Philadelphia area. The family’s mansion became the center of Catholicity in Delaware County, and served as the beginnings of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. During the 1840s and 1850s, students and the Vincentian administrators of St. Charles Borromeo

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