American Federation of Catholic Societies

...National Convention, Columbus, Ohio, 08/1911, AC008 [3] Proceedings of the American Federation of Catholic Societies of the United States, 08/1901, AC008 [4] Proceedings of Convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, 12/1901, AC008 [5] Skeleton Plan for a National Federation of Catholic Societies of the United States proposed by

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Philadelphia’s First Bishop

...Church, in a secluded alley near 4th and Walnut Streets. By the eve of the American Revolution, Philadelphia was the largest city in North America. While under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, attempts were made to create a diocese with a resident bishop, but colonial priests discouraged this

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The Church and Labor

...4 [3] Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter on Social Reconstruction, (New York: American Press, 1936), P008.334 [4] George J. Lucas, The Magna Charta of the Rights of Labor; A synopsis of Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical Rerum Novarum (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1929), P002.2029 [5] John Ryan, The Catholic Teaching

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...ident. A fourth child, Mary Magdalen, was born a year after they came back America, but died in infancy. The teaching career of Pierce did not last long, as he decided to enter the priesthood and asked Cornelia, who was five months pregnant, to agree to celibacy. Years later, on

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