Medical Mission Sisters

...iance." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101, no. 1/2 (1990): 22. [3] Lou Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in Fox Chase: Medical Mission Sisters Celebrate 70 years,” http://catholicphilly.com/2009/10/news/at-motherhouse-in-fox-chase-medical-mission-sisters-celebrate-70-years/. [4] Christine Schenk, “Becoming a Worldwide Church with Members Who Love One Another,” https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/simply-spirit/becoming-worl...

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The Church and Labor

...is being directed to the supreme end. Monsignor George G. Higgins presented 1995 Rerum Novarum Award by Local 1776 United Food & Commercial Workers. Halvey 454K Many Catholic across Europe and America saw the importance of Rerum Novarum, with some comparing its effect on labor to the effect of the

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...ratify the amendment.) Jane Campbell to her nephew John J. Campbell, August 13, 1920, p.1 Jane Campbell to her nephew John J. Campbell, p.2 Other materials relating to Jane include her will, and land deeds for the property she and Marianne purchased in Germantown. PAHRC has an almost complete set

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Eucharistic Congress

41st International Eucharistic Congress 1976 In 1976, Philadelphia hosted a major event on August 1st through 8th, unrelated to the bicentennial celebrations. The archdiocese organized the 41st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), which brought Catholics together from around the world to celebrate and discuss a theme connected to the Eucharist. The

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