Black Catholic periodicals
...ignificant increase in missionary work among African Americans around this time as evidenced by the considerable number of journals devoted to black Catholic missions that began to be published towards the end of the 19th century. It was in 1886 that Daniel Rudd started the weekly black newspaper American Catholic
World War One Army Chaplains
...oseph L. Wolfe. [5] “Funeral Held for Father Wolfe,” Catholic Standard and Times, July 8, 1949. [6] “Calls Phila Boys Heroes of Marne,” Catholic Standard and Times. September 28, 1918. [7] “’Knew We Could Lick the Germans,’ Father Wolfe Writes from Trenches” Catholic Standard and Times, November 16, 1918. [8]
Newman Centers
...ics attending University of Pennsylvania, which was greater than the total number of students attending the five local Catholic Colleges.[5] It should be noted that at this time two different Catholic organizations operated at the University of Pennsylvania. First was the Catholic Student’s Organization Committee (replaced the defunct Newman Club),
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ed for fun, not profit. These thoughts may just be nostalgic longing for a time that never really existed. But there are stories that illustrate there once were simpler times. One of these stories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his