Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...ls and some attempts by politicians, most notably Boss Tweed, to use state money to help fund these parochial schools raised concern that these religious institutions would replace the public school system completely.[2] One of Nast’s most famous cartoons, “The American River Ganges,” published in 1871 depicts bishops shaped as
Mary Brackett Willcox and Catholicism in the Suburbs
...Mills in 1726, which would go on to print paper for Benjamin Franklin and money for the United States.[3] The Willcox’s were a pioneering Catholic family in the area and were responsible for creating what would later become St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in 1729. This mission, based out of
Bishop Francis Kenrick and His Journals
...in Philadelphia (Nolan 252) and allowed for the publication of a Catholic newspaper in German. A page from Kenrick's journal that mentions the establishment of the Catholic newspaper for Germans. It was also interesting to note that two of the letters mentioned in Bishop Kenrick's journal were written to Joseph
Francis B. Gallagher collection of Fenian Brotherhood records, 1862-1870 (MC 14)
...8 with the goal of establishing an independent Ireland. As well as raising money and gathering arms to send back to Ireland, the Fenians also engaged in military activity against the British, leading two failed invasions of Canada. Factionalism within the organization led to the Brotherhood’s decline by the 1880s.