Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan
...the years. For ten years, starting in 1945, he served as editor for the American Catholic Historical Society. In addition, Reverend Nolan contributed biographies of Bishop Kenrick and Cardinal Dennis Dougherty for The History of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, published in 1976 for the American Bicentennial. On the parish level,
Pilgrimage of Hope
...Helena was the mother of Emperor Constantine and, according to legend, she traveled to Jerusalem to build churches at holy sites and bring back relics related to Christ's Passion. These relics include thorns from the Crown of Thorns, fragments of the True Cross, and nails from the Crucifixion. Here is
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ed for fun, not profit. These thoughts may just be nostalgic longing for a time that never really existed. But there are stories that illustrate there once were simpler times. One of these stories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...tunate position, even though I couldn’t see it that way." Her brother's refusal to allow her to attend school. Her brother's refusal to allow her to attend school (cont.) Dr. James Walsh lecture on the proper duty of women - "to bear many children, that men may abound." The Josephine