Cartooning Catholics

...CatholicPhilly.com: http://catholicphilly.com/2019/11/news/local-news/philadelphia-archives-offers-glimpse-into-catholic-cartoons/ Northeast Times: http://northeasttimes.com/2019/10/16/cartoons-brought-to-the-forefront-at-catholic-exhibit/ Aleteia: http://aleteia.org/2019/10/19/from-nast-to-family-circus-philadelphia-exhibit-shows-how-catholics-have-been-depicted-in-cartoons/...

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Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church

...st 5, 1973), 49, http://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/05/archives/wrecking-halted-in-philadelphia-chinatown-families-protest.html [9] Letter from Cardinal Krol to Governor Shapp, June 8, 1973, Cardinal Krol Collection, Box 162a. [10] Mary Yee, “The Save Chinatown Movement: Surviving Against All Odds,” Pennsylvania Legacies (May 2012), https://hsp.org/sites/default/files/attachments/save_chinatown_movement.pdf [11] Lou Baldwin, “Chin Helping Chinatown Ex...

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Drexel Beatification

...suffered from an ear inflection which left him deaf and without the inner ear bones. After praying to Katharine Drexel, his bones regenerated and he regained his hearing. At the end of June, 1988, while at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse, Archbishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua announced that Drexel

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Centennial Exposition

...y 7, 2019, https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/centennial-exposition-1876-buildings-fairmount-park-20190507.html [9] The Exhibition,” The Catholic Standard, 1. [10] “Opening of the American Exhibition,” Tablet, (London: May 13, 1876), 611; “The Centennial Opening,” The Louisville Catholic Advocate, (Louisville, Kentucky: May 18, 1876), 4. [11] Tablet; Advocate. [12] Louis M. Steingraber, The Church's participation in Philadelphia's celebrat...

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