Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute
...ndance.[3] There they picked the name Philopatrian, meaning “love of one’s country” and the motto of “Revere the Church thy Mother and love thy Fatherland.[4] Soon the Philopatrians were meeting at the Athanaeum of Philadelphia and started to build a library of their own. The Institute quickly started having lecture
Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection
...ed in surrounding dioceses as well as from parishes located throughout the country. The Parish Calendars are similar to current parish bulletins in that they contain such information as parish events as well as marriage and death announcements. Unlike the weekly bulletins, however, the calendars were printed monthly and include
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...e antithesis to Christianity and thus the only way to save the soul of the country was to side with those opposing it.[3] The archbishop of Toledo wrote to the American bishops in 1937 asking for support, stating that “the National army is defending the essential foundation of society.”[4] The
Mathew Carey
...Two years later, he published American Museum, the second magazine in the country The publication focused on American literature, which lead George Washington to say that “no more useful literary plan has ever been undertaken in America.”[5] Contributors included Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush and helped lead to an increased