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...Omeka Exbihits Cartooning Catholics Philly in Focus...

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Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters

...ia Historical & Museum Commission, http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/1918-Influenza-Epidemic.aspx. [3] Letter from Archbishop Dougherty dated Oct 4th 1918. SB-10, April 7, 1917- Feb. 12, 1920, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [4] Letter from Rodgers, secretary of the board of health, Oct. 25, 1918. SB-10, April 7, 1917- Feb. 12,

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The Church and Labor

...to go on strike. In “the Church the Champion of the Working Man,” Father M.F. Hennelly argued that for a strike to be just it must first use all other means to revolve the dispute and that the potential benefits must outweigh the suffering that the strike can impose on

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

...976); “The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania before 1800,” http://omeka.pahrc.net/admin/items/show/id/7133. [6] Christine 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,

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