Fundraisers
...and organizations were usually aimed at getting parishioners to contribute to fundraisers. They often showed the parish fighting off a caricature of its debt. The Handsome Hand-Sum, St. Anne Parish, April 17, 1920 Real Leaf, House of the Good Shepherd, November 20, 1921 The Score Board, St. Mary Phoenixville, March
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his time. During the 1920s, Ascension of Our Lord Parish in the city’s Kensington section sponsored one of the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was in