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The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (CHSWP) is a historical society based in western Pennsylvania. The mission of the CHSWP is to teach and disseminate knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church in western Pennsylvania and the United States, while also working to preserve documents, records, and artifacts related to that history.
In 1931, historical society leaders recruited Solon Buck, director of the Minnesota Historical Society, to lead the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. He was also charged with heading up a five-year research project that was slated to document the history of the Pittsburgh region at an estimated cost of $95,000.
Twin Mountain-Bretton Woods Historical Society, New Hampshire Unity NH Historical Society Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society, New Hampshire Village Improvement and Red Schoolhouse Historical Society, New Hampshire Wakefield Heritage Commission, New Hampshire 1979 [22] Wakefield-Brookfield Historical Society, New Hampshire 1949 [22]
In Western nations like the US, Catholic women continued to be heavily involved in areas like health and education. The Second Vatican Council of the 1960s liberalized the strictures of Catholic religious life; however, in the latter half of the 20th century, vocations for women in the West entered a steep decline. This was accompanied by the ...
The centerpiece of the new shrine was a church building designed by the Polish-American architect George Szeptycki housing the replica of the Black Madonna painting. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla , the future Pope John Paul II, visited twice: first in 1969 and then in 1976, while attending the Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia.
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the ...
In 1986, Bevilacqua banned women from participating in the Holy Thursday foot-washing service. He said that the service was a re-enactment of the Last Supper, in which Jesus only washed men's feet. After pushback from Catholic women and from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bevilacqua relented, allowing individual pastors to decide.
Drisha was founded in 1979 in New York by Rabbi David Silber as the world's first center dedicated specifically to women's study of classical Jewish texts. [ 76 ] [ 77 ] In 1979 Nancy Ledins , born William Griglak, underwent gender reassignment surgery in Trinidad, Colorado.