Cardinal Dougherty and His Golden Jubilee

...Age of Catholicism in the city as the Church continued to grown and play a central role in the lives of its parishioners.   [1] Letter from Vincent Carroll to William Kane, 06/05/1940, Parade and Field Mass Folder, 1990.284, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8247. [2] “300,000 Unite in Stirring Act of Faith and Patriotism,”

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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

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

...y moving cries of priests and religious here and there in Belgium, France, Central countries, Ireland, and the far East, it would cause odious distinctions and open the gate to a thousand furhter [sic] demands that we are unable to answer.” Letter from Heuser. Postscript reads: "P.S. the MS is

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Centennial Exposition

...d States : delivered at the meeting of the delegates of the Roman Catholic Central Society, June 1876, (New York: Hickey & Co, 1976), P001.1604. Archives Archives Select Month October 2024 July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March

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