Drexel Beatification
...ause for sainthood in 1964. In the past, the process of canonization was a long and expensive one with little guarantee of success. However, in 1983, Pope John Paul II streamlined the entire process, eliminating the Promotor of the Faith (Devil’s Advocate) and reducing the number of miracles required for
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...nt his side of the argument, Hughes started The Catholic Herald, the first long lived diocesan paper in Philadelphia. The newspaper would become the mouthpiece for Bishop Kenrick’s campaign to end Protestant proselytizing in public schools. First issue of The Catholic Herald, January 3, 1833 The nativist riots that occurred
American Czestochowa
...r Lady of Czectochowa, and was blessed and dedicated on June 26, 1955. Not long after, pilgrim groups started to vist the Shrine, mainly from Polish parishes in Philadelphia. A monastery was also established on the property, and the Superior of the Order sent over more religious. By 1956, the
The Church and Labor
...with Catholics and its teaching on the economy. The Catholic Church has a long connection to 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