Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...erpt below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-edited-online-clip.wav And I remember going into the church and being there for the whole Mass. Now she had to carry my brother in her arms and my sister just about walking, and I was about 4 years old. 4-1/2, 4 years, and I remember seeing a priest, and

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...on Human Relations. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-1.wav Devlin: George Fencl, (Chief Inspector and head of the Police Department’s Civil Affairs Unit), would call me. And one time we were up there and I had to bring in Spanish priests you know. And they were good. They’d come out, you know and we decided

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World War One Army Chaplains

...onal Museum of the U.S. Army, (January 28, 2015), https://armyhistory.org/u-s-army-chaplain-corps/. [2] Williams, Michael, American Catholics in the War: National Catholic War Council, 1917-1921, (New York: MacMillan Company, 1921), 236; O’Malley, Mark, “Providing Shepherds for Soldiers: A History of Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the U.S.” Archbishop Peter L. Gerety Lecture Series

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Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute

...of Philadelphia, MC78_80.3355 [11] Letter to Members from Father McMenamin, 10/16/1950, MC78_80.3392; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8288. [12] McClarren, A Short Story, MC78_80.3436, 27. [13] The Philopatrian, vol. III, no. 4., Feb 1942, MC78_80.3436, 2. [14] Letter to Dougherty from ERB, 1950, MC78_80.3436 [15] Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute Press Release: Archbishop Krol to Receive

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