Nuclear War
...rities that spends billions on weapons of war while its citizens live in poverty. Knudsen, “Parasite,” 1971 Knudsen compares the arms race to a parasitic plant grown by hate that will drain the life from the planet. ← Cold War Communism →...
Liturgical Week
...s keen to see these changes implemented as soon as they were allowed in Philadelphia. To that end, he invited the Liturgical Conference, an association of American clergy and laity that promotes understanding of the liturgy, to hold its 24th Annual North American Liturgical Week in the city. His goal
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...he amount of anti-Catholic materials published. The trustee problems that plagued Philadelphia beginning in the 1820s played a significant role, badly damaging the reputation of Catholics and left Philadelphians suspicious of the motives of the Catholic hierarchy. In this pamphlet published in Philadelphia in 1833, Samuel Smith, a former priest,
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...pal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to believe that America’s Protestant culture was at