Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters
...in hospitals across the city.[6] The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for instance were sent to the Municipal Hospital as well as acted as private nurses, going door to door in poor neighborhoods to find and care for the sick. The sisters who taught as St. Peters Claver’s School helped
Parish Mapping Project
...n more difficult to construct because of the lack of clear boundaries. For instance many of the suburban or ethnic parishes do not list any boundaries at all, while others list the boundary without giving any clear streets or locations, such as "bordered on the north by x parish". This
Catholic Interracial Council
...adic informal meetings until 1961, when it officially ceased.[18] With the installation of Archbishop John Krol, there was some hope for a revival and Father LaFarge wrote to him to reinstate the CICP.[19] However, Krol instead organized the Cardinal’s Commission on Human relations, which would have similar aims as the
Medical Mission Sisters
...d.[9] In the year 1944 at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for instance, the sisters treated over 35,000 patients and assisted in 641 births.[10] Furthermore, while in many places the sisters were not allowed to actively proselytize, they were instructed by Mother Dengal to “teach by example."[11] By doing