World War One Army Chaplains
...as “tired and weary and sad for their dead” but able to repel the German advance “by cold steel and American valor.”[7] According to a lieutenant in his company, even when the battle was raging father Wolfe was always “right up in the front line all the time, encouraging and
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...Quebec City, Quebec, Canada The prints seem to have been produced for a variety of uses. There are a number of prints that were used as certificates commemorating First Holy Communion and Confirmation. St. Mark's Church, Bristol, Pennsylvania Some were given as gifts for contributions to the church
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...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 and the
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...s of trusteeism and the extremely public nature of the conflict. This upheaval in the Philadelphia church persisted even after the death of Philadelphia’s first bishop on July 22, 1814, at age 53. The See remained vacant for the next six years, until Philadelphia’s second bishop, Henry Conwell, was appointed.