A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia
...ard and Times, (July 29, 1976); “The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania before 1800,” http://omeka.pahrc.net/admin/items/show/id/7133. [6] Christine Friend, “Philadelphia’s First Bishop,” CHRC (February 22, 2010), http://www.chrc-phila.org/philadelphias-first-bishop/. [7] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” Records of the American Catholic History Society of Philadelphia, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1914), 160.
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Temperance Movement
...twentieth century. While total abstinence failed to take hold as national policy, the rise of temperance societies, including Catholic Total Abstinence Union, are an important chapter in the history of the United States. Annual Convention, Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America, August 9, 1939 https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/6871 To learn more of the
Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia
...Bishop. It may have lost diocesan support due to its pro-Fenian editorial policy. The Universe continued to publish through 1869 or 1870. The Boy’s and Girl’s Weekly Catholic Magazine changed its name to The Catholic Weekly Instructor in 1849. With the change of name it also changed from a journal