Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence

...e correspondence file comes from Michael Augustine Corrigan, Archbishop of New York. Typed letter composed in 1891 by Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan asking Shea for clarification of sources to the assertion that there were large defections in the Catholic Church in America. Other large correspondence files contain letters from Archbishop

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Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

...the parish, he eliminated the parish debt and oversaw the construction of new parish buildings, such as the rectory, Adoration Chapel, and the All-Purpose Building. After retiring as pastor in 1989, Reverend Nolan was named Pastor Emeritus. Pope John Paul II named his Honorary Prelate to His Holiness in 1991,

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...ishop James Bayley form Bishop James Wood, 02/01/1865, MC 75_51.1016. [13] Newspaper Clipping, “The Holy See and the Fenians,” 07/13/1865, MC75_52.556 [14] News Clipping, “Father Lavelle’s appeal,”51.204f [15] Letter to Father Moriarty from Bishop Wood, 5/14/1964, MC751.204d, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8441. [16] Letter to Bishop Wood form Father Moriarty, 05/15/1864, MC75_51.204e, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8440 [17]

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...and contributed to Catholic publications, including the Rosary Magazine of New York, the Catholic Messenger, and the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society. As an art teacher who worked in Philadelphia’s public schools for fifty-five years- her last position as Head of the Art Department at the Girls’ Normal

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