World War One Army Chaplains

...American Catholics in the War: National Catholic War Council, 1917-1921, (New York: MacMillan Company, 1921), 236; O’Malley, Mark, “Providing Shepherds for Soldiers: A History of Catholic Military Chaplaincy in the U.S.” Archbishop Peter L. Gerety Lecture Series at Seton Hall University (April 20, 2010), 12, https://www.shu.edu/theology/upload/2010-04-21_-_Providing_Shepherds_for_Soldiers_-_Reverend_Mark_Francis_O_Malley_-_v2-2.pdf. [3] Jefferies...

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The Right Reverend Monsignor Louis Meyer papers, 1910-2007 (MC 91)

...era, correspondence, notes, journals, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and subject files containing clippings and other printed materials. 7.5 linear feet; 18 boxes Researchers may find it helpful to use the more recent finding aid (HTML) in conjunction with the legacy finding aid (PDF), which includes item-level information. View finding aid (HTML)

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Mary Brackett Willcox papers, 1807-1864 (MC 10)

...ecial interest to Mary. From an old established Puritan family from Massachusetts, she converted to Catholicism after marrying into the Willcox family. The correspondence also documents the Vincentians’ work in the Philadelphia diocese and in other parts of the country; and relates to the Willcox family. Besides correspondence, the collection

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...atholics in America. Kenrick, however, and encouraged the publication of a newspaper in German and a translation of the catechism into German. It was also interesting to note that two of the letters mentioned in Bishop Kenrick’s journal express his thanks for gifts from none other than Joseph Bonaparte, including

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