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...Partridge Lithograph Collection Manuscript Collections Newspapers & Periodicals Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia Pamphlets Parish Histories and Calendars Digital Collections Online Catalog Blog Online Exhibits Slide 5 Current Exhibit: Gift of Finest Wheat The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress Discover the Exhibit Slide 2 Newspaper Collection CHRC holds one

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Manuscript Collections

...g aids. Most of the manuscript collections of the American Catholic Historical Society (ACHS), which include the papers of prominent Catholic clergy, laity, and institutions as well as papers that document historic events, have finding aids or box lists which may be consulted by visiting the Archives. Staff are currently

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Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...arch 31, 2015. In a 2007 taped interview, Msgr. Monaghan spoke of his earliest desire to be a priest, which came in the form of bells at Ascension of Our Lord Church. Click the link below to listen to him describe this memory, or read the excerpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...olvement with the Philadelphia Police Department​ as they joined forces to calm tensions in the inner city. Msgr. Devlin was later appointed Director of the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one

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