Associations & Institutions

...course catalogs. Also included are ephemera such as brochures.   Some material may also be found in the General Pamphlet collection.   Search the collections via our online catalog....

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Newspapers & Periodicals

...ical Society of Philadelphia which was founded in 1886 to collect material documenting the history of Catholicism in the United States.   Search the collection via our online catalog.    ...

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Jack Chick (1924-2016)

Jack Chick (1924-2016) The most notable present day anti-Catholic cartoonist was Jack T. Chick, who published his first comic in 1961. He hoped to convert his readers to a radical form of apocalyptic evangelism. Jack's company, Chick Publications, has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law

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Interesting film history finds in the Parish Calendar collection

...ncerning proper Catholic behavior. Parish calendars can prove useful for researchers interested in the history of a parish or even for those conducting genealogical research. For social and cultural historians, they offer a glimpse into parish, and more broadly, Catholic life during the first half of the 20th century. As

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