Parish Histories and Calendars
...es outside of Pennsylvania may be found in the Pamphlet Collection. Parish Calendar Collection This collection contains Monthly Parish Calendars for over three hundred parishes. The date range for most is from about 1920 to 1955. Most of the calendars are those from parishes currently located within the Archdiocese of
Catholic Newspapers in Philadelphia
...to its merger with The Catholic Herald. Supposedly, there was a newspaper called The Catholic Advocate that was absorbed by The Catholic Herald but there is no proof of its existence. The Catholic Herald and Visitor was published through December 23, 1863 when it merged with The Universe, a secular,
The Church and Labor
...and the plight of the worker, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's famous Encyclical, Rerum Novarum (Latin for Of New Things), published in May of 1891. Pope Leo was reacting to the new economic systems and ideas that had spread around the world, namely capitalism and socialism. He recognized that unrestricted
Newspapers & Periodicals
...ed States. These newspapers were collected by the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia which was founded in 1886 to collect material documenting the history of Catholicism in the United States. The newspaper collection contains Catholic newspapers from throughout the United States as well as some Catholic newspapers from Canada,