The Immaculata Mighty Macs

...esa Halvey Photograph Collection. Sources: Byrne, Julie. O God of Players. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. “Remember the Glory Days!, Program for the 25th Anniversary of First National Women’s Collegiate Basketball Championship won by the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College”. Immaculata, PA: Immaculata College, 1997. Archives Archives Select Month

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Josephine Walsh (center) on her way to Europe, July 1900

A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries

...h cut short his Jesuit education due to his interest in medicine. Based in New York, he went on to become a doctor, a well-known lecturer, and author of several books on religion and healing. Dr. James J Walsh Josephine’s mother died in 1895, when she was 12. Her father

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Catholics in WWII

...ications in France. He stated in the letter that the coast itself was like New Jersey, however, “all of the beaches are one mass of tank barriers and fortifications which go as far as you can see.”[2] Boylan wrote to Dougherty in May of 1945 that there was little American

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Collections

...ets and other printed materials relating to subjects of Catholic interest. Newspapers CHRC holds one of the largest collections of Catholic newspapers and periodicals in the United States.   Parish Histories and Calendars Consists of published parish histories as well as other printed material and ephemera relating to a particular

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