Mathew Carey

...him a strong supporter of the War of 1812, as he believed it was the only way to secure American economic freedom.[10] Among other economic interests, Carey called for the creation of a canal system along the Delaware and Chesapeake Rivers as well as the unpopular view that a centralized

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Saint John Neumann and the Forty Hours Devotion

...uly 2019 April 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 February 2018 January 2018 November 2015 August 2015 May 2015 April 2015 January 2013 September 2012 August 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012

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Communism

...ression of religion in the Warsaw Pact countries, Catholicism in Poland not only survived but thrived as many Poles saw their religion as a way to oppose communism. ← Nuclear War Prague Spring →...

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Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)

...the Evangelist Church (1830), which Bishop Francis P. Kenrick erected as a way to, according to Frenaye, break down the system of trustee control in the city. Trusteeism involved the practice of Catholic laity assuming control of the administration of churches, even to the point of hiring and firing pastors.

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