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02 '24
Love it 6
Mother Cabrini was in Rome when the unexpected letter arrived. The Very Reverend Father Campbell, provincial of the Society of Jesus in New York, wrote that he’d had “an inspiration” to sell her the Jesuit novitiate house overlooking the Hudson. Two Jesuits who’d met Mother Cabrini while she was setting…
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01 '24
Love it 4
Five commissioners and their stenographers descended upon the orphanage in Dobbs Ferry, New York, early in the morning. It was a surprise visit. The Advisory Committee to the New York Commissioner of Public Charities, John Kingsbury, had been tasked with investigating child care institutions, and it had decidedly political –…