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		<title>Philadelphia&#8217;s First Bishop</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Michael Egan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Christine McCullough-Friend
Philadelphia’s first Bishop, the Irish-born Franciscan Michael Egan, was appointed a full century after the American colonists began the practice of their Catholic Faith in the New World.
The colony of Pennsylvania, chartered in 1681 with William Penn as proprietor, offered the safety of religious tolerance, but 50 years passed before great numbers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bishop&#8217;s Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Francis P. Kenrick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Shawn Weldon
In the wake of the potato famine in Ireland in the mid 1840&#8217;s, thousands of Irish-Catholic immigrants poured into the city of Philadelphia. Although looked at with suspicion by the native population, these immigrants met the needs of a rapidly growing city looking for a pool of ready labor.
Irishmen filled the manufacturing and [...]]]></description>
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