Black Catholic periodicals

...the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of

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The Church and Labor

...pagan industrialism.”[5] Another Catholic theologian at the University of Illinois, Father John O’Brien, compared Pope Leo’s work to the Bill of Rights because it set forth the idea that man is endowed with natural rights in the workforce and that he therefore needs to be treated with justice.[6] For Pope

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...beled but generally are not. St. Stanislaus Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin A number of the exterior views also include vignettes of the pastor or other parish buildings such as the school, rectory and convent or the former church. St. Mary's Church, Norwalk, Ohio The exterior views also have standard touches such

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Parish and School Closing

...vey_724J_046 Halvey_724J_041   Schools Affected In addition to parishes, a number of high schools were also slated to close, such as St. James High School for Boys in Chester, or merge, such as Bishop Conwell H.S. in Levittown and Bishop Egan H.S. in Fairless Hills. Other schools originally considered for

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