Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...w to listen to him describe this memory, or read the excerpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...appointed Director of the Cardinal's Commission on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one time we were up there and I had to bring in Spanish priests you know. And they were good. They’d come

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A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia

...ne Friend, “Philadelphia’s First Bishop,” CHRC (February 22, 2010), http://www.chrc-phila.org/philadelphias-first-bishop/. [7] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” Records of the American Catholic History Society of Philadelphia, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1914), 160. [8] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” 161. [9] Thomas Rzeznik, “Roman Catholic

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...w to listen to him describe this memory, or read the excerpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years

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