Collection Development Policy
...ls, including Archdiocesan and National Catholic directories, Philadelphia City directories, and encyclopedias. Secondary sources include scholarship relating to the history of Catholicism in the United States as well as social and cultural histories of the various ethnicities that shaped the American Catholic Church. CHRC does not actively collect non-institutional records,
Irish Land War
...testaments, and booklets on a variety of topics. I recently came across a number of documents related to the “Irish Question.” The Irish Question, concerning Irish nationalism and independence, spanned the time period from around the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. Religion and politics were both prominent topics
Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...d during the IEC. The collection illustrates the impact the IEC had on the City of Philadelphia and the Catholic Church. The 41st IEC brought Catholics together from around the world to celebrate and discuss a theme connected to the Eucharist. The theme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the