t the installation of Philadelphia Archbishop Denis Dougherty in 1918, 150,000 Catholics jammed the route from the train station to the cathedral. Before the appearance of Dougherty’s open limousine, the crowd (organized into specific viewing stands by parish) waited out fifty brass bands. Reporters described elderly women rushing the police lines to kiss the new archbi (...)
September 12, 1997
Books
American Catholic
American CatholicThe Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful ChurchCharles R. Morris Times Books, $27.50, 511 pp.
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