The Church and Labor
...called for the creation of unions with a religious foundation in order to better “restore all things in Christ.”[9] Other theologians, worked on how and when it was just for a union to go on strike. In “the Church the Champion of the Working Man,” Father M.F. Hennelly argued that
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Mary was born in 1796 in Massachusetts to Captain James Brackett and Elizabeth Odiorne.[1] In 1819, she married James Mark Willcox from Ivy Mill, PA.[2] James’s grandfather founded the paper mill in Ivy Mills in 1726, which would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the
Drexel Beatification
...e end of June, 1988, while at the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse, Archbishop Anthony J. Bevilacqua announced that Drexel would be beatified by Pope John Paul II in the months to come. Halvey_246G_007 Halvey_246G_006 Halvey_246G_001 Mass of Thanksgiving With this miracle approved, Katharine Drexel was beatified on
The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell
...d her premature baby died during childbirth in 1890, her share was divided between Katharine and Louise. Katharine used her inheritance to found and support the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Louise Morrell donated millions of dollars to various educational, religious and charitable organizations throughout her lifetime. However, there were