Temperance Movement

Our Mother of Sorrows Total Abstinence Society https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7090 Temperance movements have a long tradition in the United States, with the aim to not only eliminate drinking but to also improve the fabric of America. The first temperance society formed in 1789 in Connecticut and throughout the 19th century they spread

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Papal Infallibility

...hrist.[4] From there the Vatican I concluded that: https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8252 the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is when in discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith and morals to be held

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Influenza Pandemic and the Sisters

...American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 1919), 3-6. [8] Ibid., 7. [9] Ibid., 21. [10] Ibid., 24. [11] Ibid., 26 & 31. [12] Letter from Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania to the Right Reverbed Dougherty on November 25, 1918. SB-10, April 7, 1917- Feb. 12, 1920, Catholic Historical Research Center

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Parish Mapping Project

...he neighboring counties.   View the 1971 parish boundary map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1kAuttxjUNIOTogr05zzDB31kB9gq4myC&usp=sharing View the 1921 parish boundary map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=12hZun1-1hUN1DowqK7ICETiiYl4dIndo&usp=sharing View the 1891 parish boundary map here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Yhysl8mMehtqFoBYKT5_WX0uHKT4O-pB&usp=sharing Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 M...

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