National Council of Catholic Women

...venir of the Tenth Annual Convention, National Council Catholic Women, 1920-1930, September 28-October 1, Denver, Colorado, P008.900 [2] MC78_80.7527, Letter to Dennis Cardinal Dougherty from Anne Sarachon Hooley, 9/28/1934 [3] MC78_80.7258, National Council pf Cahtolic Women: What it is, Why it is, What it does [4] MC78_80.7527, Letter to Gertrude

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Philly in Focus: Robert Halvey’s Photographic History of Catholic Philadelphia

...ately 350,000 negatives from the entirety of Halvey’s career, covering the years 1935 to 1999. These images capture everyday participants in Philadelphia Catholic life, as well as presidents, popes, and entertainers. In addition to photographs taken for The Catholic Standard and Times, there are also photos taken for Catholic institutions,

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The Church and Labor

...ystems and ideas that had spread around the world, namely capitalism and socialism. He recognized that unrestricted capitalism placed on the "laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery," while also condemning socialism for being "directly contrary to the natural rights of mankind."[1] His encyclical would go on

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Papal Infallibility

...r err as pope when not speaking ex cathedra.[7] "Tied to His Mother's Apron-Strings" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7360 One of the highest profile debates on this issue was between British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and Cardinal John Henry Newman (now Saint Newman). In a pamphlet published in 1874, Gladstone declared that Papal

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