Victory Mass

.... [1] Letter from Cardinal Dougherty to Parish Priest, October 12, 1942. SB-36 June 1942-Dec. 1942; 101. Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. [2] Ibid. [3] Ibid. [4] Letter from Dougherty to Parish Priest, undated. SB-36 June 1942-Dec. 1942; 101. Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese

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Prague Spring

...,” September 6, 1968 McGovern questions which communist country the Soviet Union would invade next in order to impose its version of communism. ← Communism Humor Cartoons →...

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...lvey Memorial Library, (2011), https://exhibits.library.villanova.edu/chaos-in-the-streets-the-philadelphia-riots-of-1844. [7] Allison O’Mahen Malcom, “Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Canada and the United States, 1837-67,” in The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era, eds. Jerry Bannister, Liam Riordan, (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012), 218. [8]

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...880s, black Catholics began a concerted effort to establish a church and accompanying school for the community. In 1886, the St. Peter Claver Union, which Father Ernest Hiltermann of Holy Trinity Church had formed for black Catholics, along with the help of others within the Catholic community, most notably Katharine

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