He was, for a time in his 30's, a music teacher at a Catholic college.
Here, they founded a Catholic college which is still in existence today.
"There are certain core values that a Catholic college needs to stand by," he said.
At the heart of our mission is that we are a Catholic college.
"If all Catholic colleges had been surveyed, the changes observed would probably be less."
"I would say to the presidents of our Catholic colleges and universities, you have nothing to fear from us," he said.
It was the first Catholic college for women in the Philadelphia area.
It was a lucky trick of fate that sent me to a Catholic college for my education.
But the school, she said, shared a dilemma faced by many small Catholic colleges.
By the late 19th century, it was the largest Catholic college in England.