Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...h, 1926 at the age of 57. The article is noteworthy for its praise of a non-Catholic at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was commonplace. Hackett was able to put religious differences aside to work with Catholics and entertain the troops, which the tone of the article seems to imply

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Other resources/repositories

...PA Chester County Historical Society Bucks County Historical Society Delaware County Historical Society Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records The Pennsylvania State Archives Useful links Catholic Research Resources Alliance The Vatican Catholic History Links Catholic Online Directory Pope John Paul II Cultural Center New Advent/Catholic Encyclopedia The Hierarchy of the Catholic

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Photographs

...it to Philadelphia in 1979. Other photos that stand out are Halvey's sports images. Currently the photographs cannot be searched online. If there is something that you would like to have researched, please contact us at archives@chrc-phila.org, or call 215 904-8149. Pope John Paul II met by students from Little

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Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute

...Dougherty from Joseph Trainer, 4/09/1943, MC78_80.3349; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8289. [10] By-Laws of the Catholic Institutional Cooperative Association of Philadelphia, MC78_80.3355 [11] Letter to Members from Father McMenamin, 10/16/1950, MC78_80.3392; https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8288. [12] McClarren, A Short Story, MC78_80.3436, 27. [13] The Philopatrian, vol. III, no. 4., Feb 1942, MC78_80.3436, 2. [14] Letter to D...

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