Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia

Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Catholic Colonial Pennsylvania

Fr. Charles Connor visits Old St. Joseph's Church and compares William Penn's ideal of religious freedom to the anti-Catholic reality of colonial Pennsylvania.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Early Jesuit Missionary Activity in Pennsylvania

Fr. Charles Connor delves into the 300-year-old history of Jesuit missionary activity in Pennsylvania, which includes the building of America's first hospital.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Revolutionary and Early National Catholicism in Pennsylvania

Fr. Charles Connor visits Old St. Mary's Church, where the first public religious commemoration of the Declaration of Independence took place.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Problems of Lay Trusteeism in Philadelphia

Examining the concept of lay trusteeism and the problems it caused in colonial parishes.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia The Nativist Riots in Kensington

While exploring St. Michael's Church, Fr. Charles Connor reviews the events leading up to the deadly interdenominational violence known as the Nativist Riots.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Bishop Neumann and the Building of the Cathedral

Fr. Charles Connor visits the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in the heart of downtown Philadelphia, and explores the history of the Cathedral and the Diocese with the Rector of the Cathedral, Fr. Gerald Dennis Gill.

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Catholic Beginnings: Philadelphia Twentieth Century Catholicism in Philadelphia: The Life and Times of St. Katherine Drexel

Fr. Charles Connor visits the Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel, an heiress who gave up her inheritance to serve the poor, and the only canonized Saint to have been born a U.S. citizen.

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