Text transcribed from caption: C-30363 PRIEST FOR THE DEAF NEWARK, N.J. -- Father John P. Hourihan, director of the Newark arch-diocese’s Mount Carmel Guild Center for the Deaf, conducts a Christmas service in sign language for some 600 deaf people from the See. The priest used sign language throughout the whole service, which included Benediction and a sermon. The service was held in connection with an interreligious Christmas party sponsored by the Guild at Newark’s St. Francis Xavier church. Father Hourihan also is director of special education at Seton Hall University. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PIC-NK-12B-63-RB)

Prudential Insurance Company of America (publisher)

1963
December 8, 1963

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Newark (N.J.)--Charities.
Hourihan, John P.
Catholic Church--Clergy.
St. Francis Xavier Church (Newark, N.J.)
Seton Hall University--Faculty.

Clergy--New Jersey--Newark.
Christmas--New Jersey--Newark.
Christmas service.
American Sign Language--New Jersey--Newark.
Church work with the deaf--New Jersey--Newark.

New Jersey
Newark.
Newark (N.J.)
North and Central America--United States--New Jersey--Essex--Newark

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, Box 101, image no. C-30363; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_C-30363a

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