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...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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Recap of “To Touch a Saint: Creating a Place for Middle School Students” Grant Program!

...at detailed how to use the Archives, Find My Past, and were all invited to contact the staff for research help and/or return to the CHRC. The Archdiocesan Educational Fund awarded the CHRC with a grant in the amount of $31,196 for the 2018/2019 academic/fiscal year. The grant, To Touch

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The Centennial Fountain

..., the committee still needed more money and so reached out to the CTAU for support.[6] However, many other societies in the CTAU were reluctant to fundraise for the project because they saw it was a purely Philadelphia endeavor.[7] Due to this concern, the entire CTAU had raised barely half

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The Church and Labor

...e rights meant that for a wage to be just, it must pay enough for a man to support himself and his family. Despite the praise for the encyclical, there was debate of the implementation of difference aspects of its teachings, especially over labor unions. In America, there was deep

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