...Philadelphia Pamphlets Parish Histories and Calendars Digital Collections Online Catalog Blog Online Exhibits Slide 5 Current Exhibit: Behind Halvey's Lens A Photographic History of Catholic Philadelphia Discover the Exhibit Slide 2 Newspaper Collection CHRC holds one of the largest collections of Catholic newspapers in the United States. View the Collection

...xtant official correspondence of all of the bishops and archbishops of Philadelphia up to the present. The bishops' collections are rather small up to the episcopacy of Dennis Cardinal Dougherty (1918-1951), when the volume of his and subsequent collections increases significantly. Post-1920 materials are closed to researchers except by permission.