Black Catholic periodicals
...ce during the last couple decades of 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
National Council of Catholic Women
...a predecessor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[1] The United States bishops created the NCCW as a way to better organize other regional and local women groups. In this way, it would serve more as an umbrella organization to help coordinate action between associations rather than a local
American Czestochowa
...the President said. “We have not forgotten the traditional bonds that have united our peoples since our earliest days as a nation.” John Cardinal Krol officiating at the Shrine's Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson with children in traditional Polish attire and congregants at the Dedication Mass, 10/16/1966
Research guide for parish histories
...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 of the bishop in certain matters pertaining to the administration of the diocese. Information relating to parishes usually consists of votes on a request to