Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview
...s saying the rosary. But then it started to stir up again and George Fencl comes up behind me and says, “Monsignor, you think you could say another rosary?” (laughter) http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Devlin-online-clip-2.wav Interviewer: Thank you for keeping the lid on that simmering violence in the neighborhood. Devlin: Yeah, we had, we
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...ories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his time. During the 1920s, Ascension of Our Lord Parish in the city’s Kensington section sponsored one of the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was in
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...strations due to rising publication costs. By August 1883, the paper had become more literary and less a vehicle for Irish freedom and social activism with more space devoted to serialized fiction, including French and Russian works translated by associate editor, Jeremiah C. Curtin. Included were perhaps the earliest serializations
Catholics in WWII
...th from an administrative national level and an individual priest level. A common theme of the correspondence with Bishop John O’Hara of the Military Ordinariate (later Cardinal O’Hara of Philadelphia) was that there were never enough chaplains to go around. In a letter from May 19, 1942, O’Hara stated that