Daughters of Charity Nursed Wounded Civil War Soldiers at West Philadelphia hospital
...litary medicine during the war was an eye-opening experience. The wounds caused by the new and improved artillery met the outdated medical practices of understaffed field hospitals, resulting in an epidemic of needless deaths. Conditions began to improve with the advent of permanent army hospitals like Sattelee, staffed by experiences
TV and Radio
...ws such as Up On Air, The Sane Society, and Breakthrough. TV production focused on TV Mass aired on WPVI.[5] In 1981, the office created a new show called Real to Reel. The 30 minute magazine style show sought to “promote gospel values by producing and distributing television programs which
Victory Mass
...e rosary 460,000 times.[12] The Victory Mass of 1942 was important because it offered the Catholic Church’s support for the war effort. Furthermore, it connected Catholicism and patriotism in a new way as it framed the war as one needed to defend Western civilization against the aggression and
Monsignor Francis X. Meehan
...he Board of Directors of Pax Christi, an organization founded in 1945 that promotes peace, respect of human rights, justice and reconciliation throughout the world. The collection housed at the Catholic Historical Research Center contains many of the writings Monsignor Francis Meehan penned for different journals, such as Catholic Mind