A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...h cut short his Jesuit education due to his interest in medicine. Based in New York, he went on to become a doctor, a well-known lecturer, and author of several books on religion and healing. Dr. James J Walsh Josephine’s mother died in 1895, when she was 12. Her father
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A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...hism would even gain the attention of the Vatican, which sided with the authority of the bishop in a 1822 ruling.[9] Catholic Historical Research Center Digital Collections https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7134 With the questions of authority resolved, the Church continued to grow under Conwell and his successor Francis Kenrick. Kenrick was actually appointed
Herman Joseph Heuser Papers
...on Patrick Augustine Sheehan, an Irish Roman Catholic priest who was an author and activist. In this letter discusses Holmes reading proofs of Heuser’s biography on Sheehan, Canon Sheehan of Doneraile. Oliver Wendell Holmes to Herman Joseph Heuser, May 1, 1917 Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April