World War One Army Chaplains
...f Philadelphia, and members of Religious Communities (Natives of Philadelphia or serving Archdiocese of Philadelphia at time of entry) now serving as Chaplains in the Armed Forces,” Catholic Historical Research Center Digital Collections, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7315. [4] Archdiocese of Philadelphia Record of Priests Joseph L. Wolfe. [5] “Funeral Held for Father Wolfe,”
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...from larger cities include streetcars. St. Agatha's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Only a few prints break from this standard format. The lithograph of St. Mary’s Church in Masillon, Ohio is a larger size and in color, though it contains the Packard and Butler standard touches of a horse drawn carriage and
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...anti-Catholic sentiment that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...Michael Egan as the first bishop of the newly formed Diocese of Philadelphia. Carroll described Egan in his letter of nomination as “truly pious, learned, religious, remarkable for his great humility, but deficient perhaps, in firmness and without great experience in the direction of affairs.” This description would prove prophetic,