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
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
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...an his ecclesiastical studies, and Connelly, who had become a postulant in America, remained true to her calling and entered the Sacred Heart convent at Trinità dei Monti in Rome. Mercer and Adeline were at boarding school, but Connelly was able to keep Francis, the couple’s fifth child, with her.
Victory Mass
...World War II, the Catholic Church in America declared their support to the American war effort. Nowhere was this more evident than in Philadelphia, when Cardinal Dougherty held a Mass to “obtain from the mercy of God our country’s victory.”[1] The Mass was scheduled for November 1, 1942 at Convention