Monsignor Francis X. Meehan

.... Like his brothers, Joseph also entered the world of teaching and taught Religion at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield. In June of 1987, Father Meehan switched to the life of a parish priest, beginning with Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Doylestown. He was then named administrator of

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Education

...a gun implying that the only way to protect the schools, and by extension America, is to eliminate the Church. “Madness (Yet there’s method in it),” January 15, 1876 This cartoon takes much of its inspiration from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet as Uncle Sam banishes a nun from a school to

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...he Congregation of Holy Cross to be raised to the College of Cardinals as well as more generally the first religious from the United States to do so.[12] One August 28, 1960, at the age of 72 he passed away and returned once more to his beloved Notre Dame where

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James F. Connelly papers, 1790-1974 (MC 67)

...to Cardinal Krol. He was also very involved with the Eucharistic Congress held in Philadelphia in 1976 as well as with the canonization ceremonies for John Neumann. For the latter, he chaired the Liturgy Committee, which was responsible for all the ceremonies surrounding the canonization in both Rome and Philadelphia,

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