Misericordia Hospital

...Hospital Solemnly Dedicated,” Catholic Standard and Times, (June 15, 1918), 3. [8] “Our History.” [9] One-Half Century, 14 [10] First Report, 20 [11] First Report, 29-32. [12] One-Half Century, 15. [13] The Nursed Record of the First Graduating Class of the Misericordia Hospital (Philadelphia 1921), 25-27. [14] One-Half Century, 17.

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The Church and Labor

...to go on strike. In “the Church the Champion of the Working Man,” Father M.F. Hennelly argued that for a strike to be just it must first use all other means to revolve the dispute and that the potential benefits must outweigh the suffering that the strike can impose on

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St. Peter Claver

...Katharine Drexel, 3/26/1889, MC 76: 61.686 [2] Historic St. Peter Claver R.C. Church, 101st Anniversary, PH 120 [3] Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. peter Claver’s Parish, 1961, PH 120 [4] Golden Jubilee of St. Peter Claver’s, 1936, PH 120 [5] Golden Jubilee of St. Peter Claver’s, 1936, PH

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Reverend William McGarvey papers, circa 1900 (MC 5)

...led the Congregation of the Companions of the Holy Saviour. Members of the order commit to vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. McGarvey later left for the Roman Catholic Church after the adoption of the “open pulpit” resolution at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1907. This resolution

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