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		<title>The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Babe Ruth stepped up to the plate wearing an Ascension parish uniform   by Shawn Weldon                        Baseball today seems more like a business than a sport. Americans look to the past as a simpler time when baseball was played for fun, not profit. These thoughts may just be nostalgic longing for a time that never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Resting Place for Famous and Faithful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Christine McCullough Friend Commodore John Barry, father of the American Navy. George Meade, grandfather of Civil War hero General George Meade. Katrina, Philadelphia servant. Katrina? What does a servant girl have in common with these decorated war heroes and well-known patriots? They share a final resting place in Old St. Mary’s Cemetery where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Shawn Weldon  The name of Mother Katharine Drexel is familiar to many Catholics both within and outside the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. However, her sister, Louise Drexel Morrel is little remembered. Only the Morrel Park section of Northeast Philadelphia, which occupies the former site of her family estate “San Jose”, as well as Morrel Avenue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Catholicism was present in America since its founding though, by the early 19th century it had become “largely rhetorical.” The influx of Catholic immigrants, however, as well as the increasingly aggressive and authoritarian stance of the papacy, which became more outspoken in its denunciations of modernism and liberalism, established a fear that Catholics posed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia&#8217;s First Bishop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Christine 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bishop&#8217;s Bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Shawn Weldon In the wake of the potato famine in Ireland in the mid 1840&#8242;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 [...]]]></description>
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