Archbishop John Carroll

...elphia, 1797; P015.003, 6. Catholic Historical Research Center. [13] Ibid., 11 & 17. [14] Minutes of Holy Trinity, 117. [15] Frist Provincial Council of Baltimore, 1810, MC70-10.03, Egan Papers. Catholic Historical Research Center. [16] The Catholic Historical Research Center has a Carey Bible in its collection, which was own by

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...husetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. Almost nothing is known about why the company chose to specialize in church lithographs or how they solicited business or performed the execution of

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...red American society. In the immediate aftermath of the Orange Riot of July 12, 1871 in New York City, in which Irish Catholics clashed with the National Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. One cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of

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Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish

...s was appointed by Archbishop Dennis Dougherty to found a new parish on Oct 1, 1919. To which he wrote “to be a pastor is the dearest ambition of almost every priest, to be a good pastor is to reach the greatest glory of the priesthood” The first issue for

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