Higher, Faster, Stronger: The Olympics
...Olympics in Moscow. Brooks and the team never competed in the Olympics because of President Jimmy Carter's decision to boycott the Moscow Games in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Attending Mass at Saint Ignatius and Our Lady of Lourdes, Kobe Bryant was a star player at Lower
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Archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools records, 1890-1932 (MC 92)
...ew parishes had the resources to provide a K-12 education, many Catholic households chose to send their children to Philadelphia’s public schools. Due to several factors (including doubts about the suitability of a public education for Catholic children and growing anti-Catholic sentiment and the nativist riots of 1844), Bishop Francis
Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church
...iocese also set up a chapel at the CYO headquarters at 18th and Arch to be used for Sunday worship. After the first year, nine members of the community converted to Catholicism, with 58 joining the following year.[3] Construction of Holy Redeemer With the increase in membership, Msgr. Kavanagh, in