Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...Kenrick.” Edited Appleton’s Enyclopedia. Virtualology, 2001. <http://famousamericans.net/francispatrickkenrick/>. Nolan, Hugh J. Francis Patrick Kenrick: Third Bishop of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1948. O'Shea, John J. "Francis Patrick and Peter Richard Kenrick." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08618a.htm>. Archives A...

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Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs

...would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the United States.[3] The Willcox’s were a pioneering Catholic family in the area and were responsible for creating what would later become St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in 1729. This mission, based out of the family house, would

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Pamphlets

...o ephemeral material such as brochures, event programs, leaflets and newspaper clippings. The material covers a wide range of topics relating to the history of the Catholic Church in the United States including Catholic individuals, Catholic history in the United States, and Catholic opinions on theological, political, social, and cultural

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Herman Joseph Heuser papers, 1811-1933 (MC 1)

...Apostolic Delegate as general censor for all Catholic publications in the United States. Heuser also acted as a consultant to religious orders. He helped to write the constitutions of the Sisters of Mercy, Merion, Pa., where his sister was for a time General Superior, and of Katharine Drexel’s Sisters of

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