The Immaculata Mighty Macs
...to play hard. Immaculata vs. West Chester, 1974 The 1972 championship team just barely made it into the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) tournament that year. (The NCAA Women's Division Championship was not inaugurated until the 1981-82 season.) Though the team had a 24-1 record under coach Cathy
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...cause “wouldn’t it be a terrible thing if I ever got into a scandal? I can just see them tearing down poor Joan and smashing her to pieces.” Msgr. Hawks remained as pastor until his death in 1955 and the parish would remain an important feature of the community until
Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal
...lack families were able to rent pews in the gallery of Old St. Joseph. The number of black Catholics in Philadelphia grew considerably during the Haitian revolution (1791-1804) when many refugees immigrated to the city. Evidence of black Catholics can be found within the sacramental registers of the older parishes,
St. Peter Claver
...1906.[12] Eventually, the parish became the mother church for the growing number of Black Catholic churches in the city. The church would continue to play an important part in the lives of Black Catholics until its closure in 1985.[13] Despite the church’s closure, the spirit of the parish lived on