Catholic Interracial Council
...the violence enacted against the families by their white neighbors and focused on easing the tensions. Thanks to the work of the CICP, the controversy was settled and over time Levittown continued to desegregate. Halvey_L860_005: Catholic Interracial Council. Communion breakfast at St. Elizabeth Parish Hal, 11/11/1956 The following year in
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...his immense diocese be divided, and in 1808 the Dioceses of Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Bardstown, Kentucky were established. The newly formed Diocese of Philadelphia encompassed all of Pennsylvania and Delaware, and the southern half of New Jersey. Just two years later, the Diocese of Philadelphia had approximately 11