Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools

...schools increased, the archdiocese had to start charging tuition or risk closure. Roman Catholic, was almost of victim of closing in 1986; however, a large response of fundraising and increased enrollment saved the school. Starting with Bishop Neumann, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia became a model for education because of its

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Research guide for parish histories

...so contain copies of articles concerning the parishes, especially if they closed. Parish files after 1930 are closed to researchers except by special permission from the Chancery.   Visual materials CHRC has numerous images of churches, religious persons, events and places relating to the history of the Archdiocese. Although not

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Digitizing the Halvey Photograph Collection, Step One

...ian Grady, and I used sampling to accomplish this task. After counting the number of envelopes in each box, we counted the number of negatives in a sample population of envelopes, as each envelope contains a sometimes vastly different number of negatives. Based on the results, we can reasonably estimate

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Black Catholic periodicals

...the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of

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