Pilgrimage of Hope
...ggling with faith in the modern world. Later his month, on Divine Mercy Sunday (April 27th), Carlo is set to be canonized, making him the first Millennial Saint. Recently, in 2023 during the Archdiocesan Eucharistic Congress, Carlo's mother Antonia spoke near the end of the day-long event. She remarked how
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...the greatest number of deaths in any one month, averaging at least one per day. In just one year, patients consumed more than 800,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of butter and 334,000 quarts of milk. During the war, more than 100 Daughters of Charity passed through the doors of
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