John Joseph McCort
[2] After completing his courses there, he studied at La Salle College and then entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in 1876 to prepare for the priesthood.[4] Following his ordination, he was immediately appointed to the faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where he taught Latin, rhetoric, mathematics, Church history, and liturgy for the next 16 years.[5] In June 1899, he was appointed to succeed John W. Shanahan as pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows Church in the Mill Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia.[11] By the time of his death in 1936, there were 197 priests, 129 churches, 111 parishes, 50 parochial schools, and a Catholic population that had fallen to 100,634 during the Great Depression.[5] On the occasion of his golden jubilee as a priest in October 1933, McCort was named an assistant to the papal throne by Pope Pius XI.
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