An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...result in “secret and illicit manufacture and sale of bad liquor.”[4] The newspaper, the Catholic Standard and Times, was also a vocal opponent of prohibition calling it an “un-American invention” and stating that “logic…is foreign to the typical advocate of Prohibition.” [5] One major reason for Catholics’ widespread opposition to
World War One Army Chaplains
..., https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/. [2] Williams, Michael, American Catholics in the War: National Catholic War Council, 1917-1921, (New York: MacMillan Company, 1921), 236; O’Malley, Mark, “Providing Shepherds for Soldiers: A History of Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the U.S.” Archbishop Peter L. Gerety Lecture Series at Seton Hall University (April 20, 2010), 12,
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...his immense diocese be divided, and in 1808 the Dioceses of Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Bardstown, Kentucky were established. The newly formed Diocese of Philadelphia encompassed all of Pennsylvania and Delaware, and the southern half of New Jersey. Just two years later, the Diocese of Philadelphia had approximately 11
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...l purchased the property in 1907 to serve as a Catholic center for African-Americans. Soon a new parish for Black Catholics was formed under the name, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament. The SBS would teach at the school until 1967. Holy Providence In 1909, Katharine Drexel received permission from