Catholics in WWII
...WII correspondence deals with chaplains, both from an administrative national level and an individual priest level. A common theme of the correspondence with Bishop John O’Hara of the Military Ordinariate (later Cardinal O’Hara of Philadelphia) was that there were never enough chaplains to go around. In a letter from May
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
...World War II that plans to finish the shire were developed. A general appeal by all the U.S. bishops went out in 1953, raising over $8 million, which allowed construction to resume in 1954.[16] Maginnis resumed the role of architect and began where he left off 20 years prior. Building
Archbishop John Carroll
...ide the new dioceses until his death on December 3, 1815.[17] [1] Annabelle Melville, John Carroll of Baltimore: Founder of the American Catholic Hierarchy, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1955), 11. [2] Ibid., 14. [3] John Gilmary Shea, Life and Times of the Most rev. John Carroll, Bishop
Pope
...with presidential candidate and founder of the New-York Tribune Horace Greeley. Greeley was the nominee for both Liberal Republican and the Democratic Parties for the 1872 election. As a major supporter of President Grant, Thomas Nast connected Greeley to Tammany Hall to depict him as unfit for office. “The German