Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia

...the school until 1972. In 1904, two members of the SBS conducted religious Sunday classes at a North Philadelphia home. Katharine Drexel purchased the property in 1907 to serve as a Catholic center for African-Americans. Soon a new parish for Black Catholics was formed under the name, Our Lady of

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Misericordia Hospital

...the the nursing program.[15] The hospital would continue to expand with a new cancer treatment center opened in 1992 and and an emergency care facility in 1996.[16] While Misericordia was renamed in 1997 to Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia and since 2008 has been known as Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, it has

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The Church and Labor

...lic Men, 1934), P002.2186 [6] John O’Brien, The Church and a Living Wage, (New York: Paulist Press, 1937), P020.136 [7] Raymond Feely, Communism and Union Labor: Where Do You Stand? (New York: Paulist Press, 1937), P020.204 [8] Pius XI, Social Reconstruction [9] John Coogan, Rome and the American Labor Union,

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...Contact us Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHRC) 6719 Calvert Street Philadelphia, PA 19149 Phone: (215) 904-8149 Email: archives@chrc-phila.org...

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