TV and Radio
...Business: Diocesan Producer Group, Blue Binder, R1996.001 [9] Episode 634, Airdate 6/19/1994. Archives Archives Select Month June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 December 2024 October 2024 July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023
Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...lee several times to confirm many adult converts. Father Peter McGrane, no date The practice of military medicine during the war was an eye-opening experience. The wounds caused by the new and improved artillery met the outdated medical practices of understaffed field hospitals, resulting in an epidemic of needless deaths.
Vistarama
...y_L706_081 Halvey_L706_084 Exploring the Hall In addition to the exhibit space, there were various lectures and sessions held everyday. Twice the crowds packed into the Hall to try to hear Bishop Fulton J. Sheen speak. Before a crowd of 10,000 people, he spoke of the importance of the missions
Temperance Movement
...rs of the union pledged to “abstain from… the sin of intemperance” and to “change the wretched abode of the drunkard into a home of peace and prosperity,” highlighting the belief that drinking not only threatened the salvation of the soul but also endangered the functioning of society.[6] In addition