Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find

...outh, social activist and entertainment mogul. Redpath had sold his Lyceum booking agency several years earlier and was recuperating from an accident. He proposed to The New York Tribune that they send him to Ireland where he could regain his health while reporting on social conditions in that country. Though

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Vatican II

...with hope for a better tomorrow. Wolf, “The Middle Way,” December 9, 1966 After Vatican II, there was debate over how to implement its teachings. Here Wolf shows that the middle way is the best way. Wolf, ” It’ll Make Port,” June 2, 1967 The Church represented as a ship

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TV and Radio

...Business: Diocesan Producer Group, Blue Binder, R1996.001 [9] Episode 634, Airdate 6/19/1994. Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022 March 2022 February 2022

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Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital

...lee several times to confirm many adult converts. Father Peter McGrane, no date The practice of military medicine during the war was an eye-opening experience. The wounds caused by the new and improved artillery met the outdated medical practices of understaffed field hospitals, resulting in an epidemic of needless deaths.

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