Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
...ack national collection in 2017 to complete shrine mosaics," Catholic News Service, http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2015/bishops-back-national-collection-in-2017-to-complete-shrine-mosaics.cfm. [17] “Overview of Shrine History, Significance and Current Status," 1. Archives Archives Select Month July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 December 2024 October 2024 July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 January
World War One Army Chaplains
...line all the time, encouraging and administering to the boys.”[8] For his service Father Wolfe received the Citation Star from General Perishing.[9] After the war Wolfe returned to St. Patrick’s Parish in Philadelphia as well as served as National Chaplain of the American Legion. Father Wolfe also holds
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...uch of the area was mills and other industry and most of the families that lived in the area poor so raising funds for building the church would prove an issue. Hawks quickly set up a temporary chapel located in a house with an old store front that could fit
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...s side of the argument, Hughes started The Catholic Herald, the first long lived diocesan paper in Philadelphia. The newspaper would become the mouthpiece for Bishop Kenrick’s campaign to end Protestant proselytizing in public schools. First issue of The Catholic Herald, January 3, 1833 The nativist riots that occurred in