National Council of Catholic Women
...a predecessor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.[1] The United States bishops created the NCCW as a way to better organize other regional and local women groups. In this way, it would serve more as an umbrella organization to help coordinate action between associations rather than a local
Recently Processed Collection: John Gilmary Shea Correspondence
...was a four volume series titled, The History of the Catholic Church in the United States, published between 1886 and 1892. With all of Shea’s publications over the decades, it is reasonable to assume he relied on his expansive network of personal and professional relationships to obtain the pertinent information
Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara
...rated as a bishop and was appointed to lead the Apostolic Delegate for the United States Armed Forces. On V - E Day in 1945, he was installed as the Bishop of Buffalo where he remained for the next 6 years.[3] O’Hara was appointed head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...rt the Nationalist cause. Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil War. Others in the United States who supported the Nationalists during the Civil War wrote numerous pamphlets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to