Catholics in WWII

...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 any U.S. diocese.[7] Meyer Photo: Margherita Camp Chapel From his priests, Dougherty would often receive monthly progress reports

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Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals

...ten to Kenrick from the president of the Council of Lyon in 1843 that some missionaries of the time were concerned for the welfare of German Catholics in America (Correspondence 120). Bishop Kenrick provided money to aid a new German parish in Philadelphia (Nolan 252) and allowed for the publication

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...ten to Kenrick from the president of the Council of Lyon in 1843 that some missionaries of the time were concerned for the welfare of German Catholics in America. Kenrick, however, and encouraged the publication of a newspaper in German and a translation of the catechism into German. It was

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Medical Mission Sisters

...Missions Sisters. [8] Francis P. Goodall, "The Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries of Philadelphia: Twenty-five Years of Pioneering." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 61, no. 4 (1950): 242-244. [9] Ibid., 246. [10] Reher, "Denis J. Dougherty and Anna M. Dengel," 28. [11] Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in

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