Carmelite Monastery
...of the America's first Carmel in Baltimore: "Vivat, cresat, floreat vita contemplativa" -"May the contemplative life live, increase and flourish among us." References used: Carmel In the City of Brotherly Love, 1902-1952. P006.026 Dash, Allen. Carmel in Philadelphia: The First Hundred Years, Carmelite Monastery, Philadelphia, 2002. P023.049 Official Jubilee
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...pal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to believe that America’s Protestant culture was at
The Church and Labor
...tates. Archbishop Patrick Ryan was active in labor relations, working on a number of occasions as a mediator between management and labor unions to bring about peace resolutions. In a 1953 Labor Day speech, John Cardinal O’Hara rejoiced in the work that had been done to restore the dignity of
Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France
...e significant impact. Based on the piece that Kite wrote, she had been in contact with the Cardinal of Reims as well (though I did not see evidence of this correspondence in the collection). The Cardinal of Reims at the time was Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon, whose church in Reims became a