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		<title>Cardinal John P. Foley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best known as the English language commentator for the Pope’s Midnight Christmas Mass and other major papal liturgies, Cardinal John Patrick Foley, Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and former President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, died on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at Villa Saint Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Land War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m posting this on behalf of one of our hard-working volunteers, Heather Schubert. During my time volunteering at the Archives, I’ve been cataloging miscellaneous pamphlets from the late nineteenth century into PastPerfect, which are now accessible in the PAHRC&#8217;s online catalog. Within these hundreds of pamphlets are speeches given by members of the clergy, last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer, I served as a volunteer mainly working with PAHRC&#8217;s collection of parish calendars. My task was to catalog the calendars into PastPerfect so that the collection could be accessible to researchers online. In all, the collection contains calendars for over three hundred parishes. The date range for most is from about 1920 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/interesting-film-history-finds-in-the-parish-calendar-collection/</link>
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		<title>Robert M. O&#8217;Reilly, Surgeon General</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A small manuscript collection that I recently finished processing is the Robert M. O’Reilly papers (MC 34). Robert Maitland O&#8217;Reilly (1845-1912) was the 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909.  O&#8217;Reilly served a long military medical career beginning as a medical cadet in August 1862 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/robert-m-oreilly-surgeon-general/</link>
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		<title>Herman Joseph Heuser Papers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a volunteer at the Archives I have been processing the Herman Joseph Heuser papers, a manuscript collection that is part of the American Catholic Historical Society Manuscript Collections. Herman Joseph Heuser (1851-1933) was a Catholic intellectual and prolific writer who influenced scholarly circles and clerical life in the United States and abroad through his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/herman-joseph-heuser-papers/</link>
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		<title>Philadelphia&#8217;s Third Archbishop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was recently announced that Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., former Archbishop of Denver, will replace Cardinal Justin Rigali as Archbishop of Philadelphia. The announcement and subsequent installation of Chaput as the ninth Archbishop of Philadelphia comes around the same time as the 100th anniversary of the installation of Philadelphia’s third Archbishop, Edmond F. Prendergast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/philadelphias-third-archbishop/</link>
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		<title>Ann Mattingly&#8217;s Miracle Cure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a volunteer at the Archives and have been working on cataloging one of their pamphlet collections into PastPerfect, an online catalog that is available through PAHRC&#8217;s website. That way, instead of blindly searching through boxes, all you need to do is a search through the database to locate a pamphlet. Something interesting that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/ann-mattinglys-miracle-cure/</link>
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		<title>Catabloging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through my employment here, I am a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, or DVAG, and have found the association&#8217;s meetings to be very informative and educational. It was at a DVAG meeting a couple of years ago that Cathleen Miller, who at the time was serving as Project Archivist for the Chew papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Days of the Union</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month of April, 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860. In apparent response to this news, Reverend Joseph Cullen from St. Bridget&#8217;s Parish recorded a brief yet profound statement in the church marriage register. Dated December 1860, Father Cullen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pahrc.net/index.php/last-days-of-the-union/</link>
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		<title>Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the print collections of the PAHRC is a collection of Catholic church lithographs by the Philadelphia lithography firm of Packard and Butler (later Packard, Butler and Partridge), There are over 400 prints of interior or exterior views of Catholic churches throughout the United States and parts of Canada. The firm of Packard and Butler [...]]]></description>
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