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...various races. Nast is suggesting that while other European, Asian, and African races respect the idea of equal rights for all, the Irish driven by their Catholicism want to poison American liberty. Nast and other contemporary cartoonists often depicted the Irish with ape-like features to showcase the groups’ inferior and

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...aper published in 1892. The paper was created by black Catholics for the African American Catholic community. PAHRC has several issues of the paper. July 9, 1892 issue Black Catholics, made up of both free and enslaved African Americans, had been a presence in Philadelphia since the establishment of the

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William J. Lallou papers, circa 1890-1973 (MC 55)

...several years at St. Charles Seminary and at the Catholic University of America where he himself received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate. He authored The fifty years of the apostolic delegation (1943), and was named a domestic prelate by Pope John XXIII in 1959. This collection contains sermons as well

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Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute

...01/09/1987, Halvey 443E The oldest Catholic lay educational society in America was founded on December 22, 1850 by Father Edward Sourin (later a member of the Society of Jesus).[1] Named, Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute, it was organized as a fraternal setting in which young Catholic men could “cultivate and improve

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