A Philadelphia Artist
...William’s father, Captain John Martin, mainly conducted business with New Orleans and the Caribbean as well as Western Europe and China. William spent much of his young life at sea. One item in the collection includes his passport from age 12-signed by Secretary of State Henry Clay- when he travelled
World War One Army Chaplains
...American Catholics in the War: National Catholic War Council, 1917-1921, (New York: MacMillan Company, 1921), 236; O’Malley, Mark, “Providing Shepherds for Soldiers: A History of Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the U.S.” Archbishop Peter L. Gerety Lecture Series at Seton Hall University (April 20, 2010), 12, https://www.shu.edu/theology/upload/2010-04-21_-_Providing_Shepherds_for_Soldiers_-_Reverend_Mark_Francis_O_Malley_-_v2-2.pdf. [3] Jefferies...
Catholics in WWII
...stant chaplains.[6] O’Hara’s letter also included a list breaking down the number of chaplains from each diocese, in which Philadelphia had the second most with 51. As the war continued that number would increase to 68, unfortunately eight of those Philadelphia priests would die in the war, the most of
Newman Centers
...is was the publication of periodicals, such as the Newman Quarterly (later Newman News), which ran from 1917 to 1947.[10] In 1938, the FCCC would change its name to the Newman Club Federation and by the 1950s would have 600 local clubs around the world.[11] One of the main problems