Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...lic sentiment, and concerned about the public duties required of a bishop, American colonial priests declined all offers to establish an episcopate, or to allow a bishop to visit the colonies. The first American diocese was established in Baltimore in 1789, under the leadership of Bishop John Carroll. The boundaries
An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...lic Standard and Times, 02/08/1919, 8. [6] Newsom, “Some Kind of Religious Freedom,” 812. [7] “Temperance Union Urged to Fight Liquor Question,” Catholic Standard and Times, 10/2/1920, 3. [8] John Quinn, “Father Mathew’s Disciples: American Catholic Support for Temperance, 1840-1920,” Church History vol. 64, no. 4, Dec. 1996, 635. [9]
Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful
...unmarked resting place remains unknown. Time and weather have taken their toll on this cemetery, rendering many tombstones unreadable. In 1891, the American Catholic Historical Society published a list of the inscriptions of those tombstones that were still legible to document the deteriorating written record. Sketch of Old. St. Mary's
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...ation of the Catholic Standard & Times Thanks to generous support from the American Catholic Historical Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty historic Catholic