Catholics in WWII
...stant chaplains.[6] O’Hara’s letter also included a list breaking down the number of chaplains from each diocese, in which Philadelphia had the second most with 51. As the war continued that number would increase to 68, unfortunately eight of those Philadelphia priests would die in the war, the most of
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
Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One
...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate
Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...is John B. Kelly. Born of Irish immigrants, he grew up in Saint Bridget’s parish and worked as a bricklayer. After joining Vesper Rowing Club, he teamed up with his cousin, Paul Costello, who was from Saint Edward the Confessor in North Philadelphia. The pair won gold medals at the