Eden Hall

...ystown, Pennsylvania. It was here that a mission was opened by Mother Elizabeth Gallitzin, sister of the missionary priest Demetrius Gallitzin and former Russian princess. Conditions in McSherrystown grew worse when a wave of tuberculosis ran through the community. Seeking a new site for their school, Bishop Francis Kenrick recommended

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Catholic Interracial Council

...l council movement had a large impact on the Catholic Church and relations between whites and blacks. The councils sought to better integrate both groups within the church and strived to achieve social justice within local communities.   Listen to the digitized phonograph collection of the Catholic Interracial Council here:

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...ather than join an established order, it was Connelly's mission to start a new order which she called the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. As Superior, she and the nuns that joined her opened a boarding school for girls with a full curriculum including English, foreign languages, social studies,

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Research guide for parish histories

...nd anniversaries are usually documented by articles from both the Catholic newspaper of the time and secular newspapers. Consultors' Minute Books, 1896-1991 These provide brief descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers

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