Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...xpenses.[14] Surprisingly popular daytime activity of fingerpainting, held most Mondays. By the summer of 1946, the USO was looking to close many of the hundreds of clubs throughout the country due to the general demobilization.[15] The Philadelphia branch decided to cease funding the Benedict Club and the other agency clubs
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Brackett Willcox, March 4, 1843, MC 10 Box 1 Folder 5; Letter from Patrick Moriarty, OSA to Mary Brackett Willcox, June 25, 1842, MC 10 Box 1 F 8. [13] Letter from Bartholomew Rollando, CM to Mary Brackett Willcox, November 18, 1845, MC 10 Box 1 Folder 3; Letter from
Newspapers & Periodicals
...ction contains over 300 titles, representing 35 states and the District of Columbia, and covers the period primarily from the 1820’s through the 1940’s. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1840’s through the 1920’s. Click here for information about Catholic newspapers in Philadelphia. CHRC’s periodical collection, which includes
Cardinal John P. Foley
...can’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications, a position he held for more than 23 years. Foley was elevated to the College of Cardinals on November 24, 2007. Celebrating Foley's appointment as Archbisop, 1984 For more information on Cardinal Foley see the Archdiocese of Philadelphia website. Photos of the Cardinal