Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools records, 1890-1932 (MC 92)
...would act to upgrade and standardize the curriculum and practices of the decentralized feeder parish schools. In 1895, the board established a group of inspectors to oversee the schools, and in 1901 the power to appoint principals and teachers was transferred from local priests to the central board. The Archdiocesan
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...y of the ballplayers personally. He hit upon an idea that seems ridiculous today. Perhaps Father Casey could persuade Babe Ruth to take part in a charity baseball game to raise money to pay off the field. Father Casey met with Ruth and Yankees manager Miller Huggins to discuss the
Black Catholic periodicals
...ears to have been due to the significant increase in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...triumph in order to restore Spain from the damage inflicted by the Second Republic and the Republican forces. Hawks went on to write for numerous Catholic newspapers and journals on the horrors of the war and the need for Catholics to support the Nationalist cause. Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil