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that the heart of the contract between the citizens and po- lice should be the U.S. Con- stitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures (4th Amendment) and requires equal protection of all citizens (14th Amend- ment).” Now, some citizens are won- dering if Nutter’s family homilies will be sufficient to prevent the violation of citi- zens’ Constitutional Rights


by the Philadelphia Police Department in the future. Perhaps something more is needed. Green Party leader Giordano has a proposal to make in this regard. Giordano says, “The members of the Philadelphia Police De- partment should be instructed to provide every citizen who is stopped and frisked with a copy of Citizen’s Complaint Form #75-561 (Rev.9/94). If that citizen believes he or she was harassed, intimidated or suffered a Civil Rights viola-


tion, they may then return the complaint form to Internal Affairs Division, Philadel- phia Police Department, 7790 Dungan Road, Philadel- phia, PA 19111.” According to Giordano, “Citizens who are stopped and frisked may also file a complaint online at www.phillypolice.com/ forms/official-complaint- form. For more information, please email friendsofhugh@ gmail.com. __________________


The author is a member of the City Committee of the Green Party of Philadelphia, www. gpop.org.


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of Philadelphia, as Widener donated the structure to the city’s library system in 1899. It remained a branch library from 1900 to 1946, and then mysteriously burned to the ground in 1980. The Francisville area in the 1950s and 60s was also home to the Carriage House offices of architect Vincent Kling and Lankenau Hospital. Lankenau was founded in 1860 as “the German Hos- pital of Pennsylvania” on North Philadelphia’s Morris Street but renamed when the United States entered World War I, a time when anti-Ger- man bias was particularly pronounced. Recent published news re- ports of there being a reflect- ing pool at the monastery might need to be revised after listening to the story of Sister Evelyn Eynon, a Poor Clare nun who began living at the Francisville monastery in 1955. “There never was a reflect- ing pool,” Sister Eynon told me by phone. “There may have been one before the sisters moved there. I didn’t enter till 1955, and at that time it was filled with large rocks from the wall of Girard College. They didn’t know what to do with rocks at the time, so they were just put into what—to the people-- looked like a reflecting pool. On top of the rocks there was a large cement cross.” While Sister Eynon does


admit that there could have been a reflecting pool “years ago,” she describes the gar- den as “not too big or too small.” 1955 or the pre-Vatican II era was a healthy time for the Catholic Church in America. The Poor Clare monastery at that time housed between 42 and 44 sisters, a figure that would drop after Vatican II. By 1977, the year the Poor Clares moved from Girard Avenue to Langhorne, there were 24 to 26 nuns. The move to the new mon- astery, Sister Eynon remem- bers, was bittersweet. “We knew that there was no way for us to take care of the needs of the monastery. It needed new electrical fix- ings–it needed new plumb- ing. Even the fire escapes had to be redone; it was just a tremendous project. There was no way we could con- tinue. The cheaper thing was to move, so that’s what we did.” In the 1970s of course, the ac- cent was on building some- thing new and modernism in general. This is the decade that-- architecturally speak- ing-- wrecked havoc on tra- ditional Catholic Church ar- chitecture, when high altars were removed, statues and altar rails eliminated, and when new church design seemed to ignore St. Thomas Aquinas’s assertion that the worshipper’s mind is elevat- ed to contemplation through material objects. (This idea is


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explored in depth in Michael S. Rose’s 2001 book, Ugly As Sin, Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Places—and How We Can Change Them Back Again, Sophia Institute Press). The monastery itself con- tained both single rooms and dormitories, and the chapel had pews for visitors. Because they were a contem- plative order, the sisters nev- er left the convent although Sister Eynon says, “Two extern sisters took care of whatever had to taken care of outside the monastery.” In the chapel there was a wall that separated the nuns from the people. “We had our chapel in the back of the people’s chapel with just grates between, and then we had an altar on our side for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament,” Sister Eynon said. I asked Sister what it was like living in a dense urban setting. “Towards the end we would sometimes hear things from the street. On the other hand, I must admit that we were never really bothered. People were very good to us.” Life got a little shaky for the nuns after neighboring Lan- kenau Hospital moved to Wynnewood in 1953 and the building was demolished sometime later. “When they tore it down, the bats came out. There were bats in the eaves and things like that, so we had to be careful to keep from them.” Unlike country monaster- ies, which make soaps, jams, baked good or wine, the Philadelphia Poor Clares made altar breads for many churches in the Archdiocese. Visitors to the original mon- astery over the years includ- ed Cardinal Krol, who visited often, and Father Walter Cis- zek, the first American Byz- antine Rite Jesuit priest to do missionary work in the So- viet Union and whose cause for sainthood is currently be- ing heard in Rome. “But no popes or anybody like that,” Sister Enyon quipped. While the new Poor Clare monastery chapel in Lang- horne has the Spartan mod- ernist look common among many Catholic churches built in the 1970s, the new build- ing managed to incorporate the beautiful small round glass stained window of St. Clare that once looked out over West Girard Avenue.


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