Alberto Rivera
...s anti-Catholic comic book series based its stories off the testimony of a man named Alberto Rivera. He claimed to be an ex-Jesuit from Spain, although there is no evidence to support this. Rivera would go on to allege the Catholic Church used the Jesuits as secret police to do
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...ica. Kenrick, however, and encouraged the publication of a newspaper in German and a translation of the catechism into German. It was also interesting to note that two of the letters mentioned in Bishop Kenrick’s journal express his thanks for gifts from none other than Joseph Bonaparte, including The Flagellation
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...f Arc to be erected. Originally, they tried to get the actress, Ingrid Bergman to model for the statue of St. Joan of Arc since she was playing the saint in a production on Broadway. Hawks and others even went up to New York to try to meet her after
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...y and were frequent visitors of the influential Borghese family and Englishman John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, who became Pierce’s sponsor for the Sacraments. Pierce, who wanted to become a Catholic priest, asked around Rome how to start the process. Even though there were rare exceptions for married