Education
...sts often depicted the Irish with ape-like features to showcase the groups’ inferior and animalistic nature. Nast’s cartoons reveal deep-seated animosity towards the Catholic Church. Nast feared a takeover of the United States by the pope and saw threats everywhere, most notably to public education. His cartoons have had a
Drexel Beatification
...Thanksgiving held on December 4, 1988, at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. Bevilacqua and Krol were both celebrants at the Mass and Archbishop Eugene Marino, the first black Archbishop in the United States, gave the homily. Following Communion, the Jemez Pueblo performed a Buffalo Dance, which is
Archbishop Ryan
...Before his funeral, his body lay in state at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul were over 100,000 people came to pay their respects.[14] As we remember the 135th anniversary of Ryan’s appointment, it is clear that he left his mark on the development of Catholicism in the