Education
...Tilden’s “Wolf at the Door, Gaunt and Hungry.” Don’t let him in,” September 16, 1876 Here a wolf with a papal and Democratic Party collar is trying to force its way into a school room as the children barricade the door. In the background of the cartoon, Uncle Sam can
TV and Radio
...lic Hour. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia began its own radio apostolate in 1944 and would add television in 1964 after the decree from Vatican II to use media to teach the faithful.[1] The ministry would expand in 1974 when the Delaware Valley Catholic Office of TV and Radio (DVCOTVR) was
Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...the 1870s,” History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Summer, 2005), 180. [2] Ibid., 182. [3] Joshua Brown, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 62; Niall Whelehan, The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in
Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia
...ce the cause of Native-American and African-American education. On February 12, 1891, Katharine pronounced her vows as the first member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. She added one vow to the usual ones of poverty, chastity, and obedience: “To be the mother and