World War One Army Chaplains
...not be allowed to join until the Mexican-American War of 1846.[1] When the United States entered the war in 1917 there were only a handful of Catholic priests in the armed forces; however, by the end of the war that number grew to over 1,000.[2] Of those, 38 chaplains came
American Czestochowa
...the President said. “We have not forgotten the traditional bonds that have united our peoples since our earliest days as a nation.” John Cardinal Krol officiating at the Shrine's Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson with children in traditional Polish attire and congregants at the Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966
Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...ribes of the United States, 1529-1854 (1854), An Elementary History of the United States (1855), and A School History of the United States (1855). Shea was very passionate about his life as a scholar; so much so that over the next four decades, he published two hundred and fifty articles
National Council of Catholic Women
...a federation seeking to unite and strengthen local groups, not to be in competition with them.[3] When the NCCW began, there were 264 women’s groups that affiliated with it. Structurally, the National Council of Catholic Women had regional providences, normally named after the various archdioceses around the United States. Each