Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
..., more than 100 SBS educational intuitions, including Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, would be founded across 23 states and 3 countries. Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Being from Philadelphia and having the order’s Motherhouse located right outside the city in Cornwells Heights, Katharine Drexel and the SBS
Research guide for parish histories
...nd anniversaries are usually documented by articles from both the Catholic newspaper of the time and secular newspapers. Consultors' Minute Books, 1896-1991 These provide brief descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...society. In the immediate aftermath of the Orange Riot of July 12, 1871 in New York City, in which Irish Catholics clashed with the National Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. One cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863,