Parish and School Closing
...n de Porres. In Chester, all six parishes in the city would merge into one new parish called Blessed (now Saint) Katharine Drexel. Other parishes to close in 1993 included St. Elizabeth and the Church of the Gesu. Halvey_394J_071 Halvey_724J_046 Halvey_724J_041 Schools Affected In addition to parishes, a number
Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists
...rmation of priests in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Archivist Sarah Waits of New Orleans show the family tree of Pope Leo XIV The theme of this year’s conference was “Unsilencing the Archives: Illuminating Voices and Collections,” and discussed topics on how archivists can make their collections discoverable and useable. The
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...lets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to spread his views on important Catholic topics. In one of his pamphlets, he described the war as “a struggle between civilization and communism” and of
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Mary was born in 1796 in Massachusetts to Captain James Brackett and Elizabeth Odiorne.[1] In 1819, she married James Mark Willcox from Ivy Mill, PA.[2] James’s grandfather founded the paper mill in Ivy Mills in 1726, which would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the