Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...third Archbishop, Edmond F. Prendergast (1911-1918). Catholic Standard and Times, June 3, 1911 Prendergast studied, was ordained, and served in the in the Philadelphia Archdiocese for almost a half-century by the time Pope Pius X appointed him Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan’s replacement in May 1911. He was installed as Archbishop

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Monsignor Francis X. Meehan

...al articles, as well as a regular contributor to the Catholic Standard and Times. The majority of the articles concern peace and moral theology. At the time when most of the articles were written, the Cold War was raging and the threat of nuclear fallout was always looming. Msgr. Meehan,

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Archbishop John Carroll

...Scribner’s Sons, 1955), 11. [2] Ibid., 14. [3] John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most rev. John Carroll, Bishop and First Archbishop of Baltimore, (New York, John Shea, 1888), 33 & 38. [4] Melville, John Carroll, 38 & 49. [5] Shea, Life and Times, 209 & 223. [6]

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The Vatican – Marian Year Stamp Philatelic Exhibition

...shown thus far" in the Philadelphia museum. In addition to being the first time Vatican stamps were exhibited in America, the exhibit commemorated the 25th anniversary of the first postage stamps issued by Vatican City in 1929.   Francis Cardinal Spellman and Archbishop John O'Hara looking at some of the

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