Victory Mass

..., November 1, 1942 Convention Hall, Philadelphia, PA." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 53, no. 4 (1942): 203. [6] “Great Catholic Mass in Convention Hall to Support War Effort,” SB-36 June 1942-Dec. 1942; Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [7] Leslie White, Modern

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An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...and Times, 10/2/1920, 3. [8] John Quinn, “Father Mathew’s Disciples: American Catholic Support for Temperance, 1840-1920,” Church History vol. 64, no. 4, Dec. 1996, 635. [9] Proceedings of the First Conference of Catholic Favoring Prohibition, (Scranton: 1914), 5. [10] Ibid., 22. Archives Archives Select Month June 2025 May 2025 April

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Medical Mission Sisters

...ougherty and Anna M. Dengel: The Missionary Alliance." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101, no. 1/2 (1990): 22. [3] Lou Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in Fox Chase: Medical Mission Sisters Celebrate 70 years,” http://catholicphilly.com/2009/10/news/at-motherhouse-in-fox-chase-medical-mission-sisters-celebrate-70-years/. [4] Christine Schenk, “Becoming a Worldwide Church with Members Who Love One Another,”

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Archbishop John Carroll

...uld no longer be under the Vicar Apostolic of London. So in 1783, the American Catholic clergy sent a letter to the pope requesting a new American apostolic. On June 9, 1783, Pope Pius VI made John Carroll the Superior of the Mission in the Thirteen United States of North

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