Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute
...es as well. One of its first major lectures was given in 1851 by Bishop Francis Kenrick, where he discussed the importance of developing Catholic parochial education.[5] Soon after Bishop Neumann would pick up this mantle and created the first Catholic school system. Over the next twenty years the Institute
An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...preserve the right to obtain and use altar wine.[6] Catholic Total Abstinence Union https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7025 However, this does not mean that Catholics were always in favor of alcohol. As discussed in a previous post, the Catholic Total Abstinence Union (CTAU) was a large Irish Catholic organization focused on
Medical Mission Sisters
...et Mary Reher, "Denis J. Dougherty and Anna M. Dengel: The Missionary Alliance." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 101, no. 1/2 (1990): 22. [3] Lou Baldwin, “At Motherhouse in Fox Chase: Medical Mission Sisters Celebrate 70 years,” http://catholicphilly.com/2009/10/news/at-motherhouse-in-fox-chase-medical-mission-sisters-celebrate-70-years/. [4] Christine Schenk, “Becoming a Worldwide Church with
Temperance Movement
...ained about a fall in per capita members, blaming it on the growing acceptance of abstinence and thus decrease in need for the societies.[10] This decrease likely influenced the CTAU’s decision to allow women societies to become honorary members in 1878 and then full active members by 1880; although they