Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools

...] Other sports would be added and the football games against St. Joe’s and La Salle would lay the ground work for the eventual Catholic League.[8] Soon after the opening of Roman Catholic, there were calls to open a similar high school for girls. While a full high school was

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The Immaculata Mighty Macs

...and Teresa Halvey Photograph Collection. Sources: Byrne, Julie. O God of Players. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. “Remember the Glory Days!, Program for the 25th Anniversary of First National Women’s Collegiate Basketball Championship won by the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College”. Immaculata, PA: Immaculata College, 1997. Archives Archives Select

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...l affairs of this section of the city. Jane also contributed to several Philadelphia newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Record, and the Ledger writing about a multitude of topics. She also wrote children’s folk tales for the Record and contributed to Catholic publications, including the Rosary Magazine of New

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...se of Representatives of the Fenian Brotherhood, in Joint Convention at Philadelphia, PA, (New York: D.W. Lee, 1868), P005.0145 [4] John O’Neill, “Address. Headquarters, O'Neill's Irish American colonies, 1439 North Twelfth St, Philadelphia, Pa, December 4th, 1876,” P001.1587, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8438 [5] O’Neill, “Address,” P001.1587 [6] MC14: Fenian Brotherhood Collection, https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:24737...

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