Liturgical Music and Peter LaManna

...Archdiocese’s Liturgical Music office and beyond. It is subdivided into many different categories, from correspondence to booklets from the Masses his choirs sang at. https://archives.chrc-phila.org/repositories/2/resources/47   Featured is the Collegiate Choir singing Gift of Finest Wheat at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress https://chrc-phila.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/gift-of-finest-wheat.wav   Collection processed and blog post...

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Roman Catholic and Archdiocese High Schools

...105 freshman students; however, only a quarter of them would graduate as many dropped out because of the rigor.[5] Despite the low graduation rate, Roman Catholic quickly became popular so that by the turn of the century they needed entrance exams to select the incoming students.[6] Roman Catholic football team

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...e pseudonyms “T.S. Arthur” and “Catherine Osborne,” Marianne contributed many articles. The periodical, according to its editor, was to “be a high class monthly magazine devoted to the best interests of Women. It is the intention of the editor,” the first issue’s editorial announcement notes,” to keep women informed of

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...poke of concern of witnesses lying to give the prisoners alibis.[11] While different in scope and agenda both groups had conflict with the Bishop of Philadelphia, Rev. James Wood. During the height of the Fenians, they used the Irish paper, The Universe, to falsely claim that the church ordered they

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