Medical Mission Sisters
...ile Dengel saw the use of trained religious sisters as filling the void in India and other countries to care for the sick, there was a major problem. According to Catholic canon law, religious sisters were not allowed to practice medicine or obstetrics.[4] Due to this, when the sisters formed
Catholics in WWII
...stant chaplains.[6] O’Hara’s letter also included a list breaking down the number of chaplains from each diocese, in which Philadelphia had the second most with 51. As the war continued that number would increase to 68, unfortunately eight of those Philadelphia priests would die in the war, the most of
Pilgrimage of Hope
...f Assisi Besides vising the Seven Pilgrim Churches, visiting several Roman sites and enjoying local pasta dishes (one of which I learned to make), I took a day-trip to Assisi. I had always wanted to go to Assisi, which I like to call the most-popular small town in Italy, mainly
The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...ie in a mass grave under the current Paoli-Thorndale line. In their latest book Massacre at Duffy’s Cut, the Watson brothers talk about how the incident at Duffy’s Cut was not a localized case, and that around “twenty thousand Irish immigrant laborers died in industrial projects on railroads and canals