Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...of St. John the Evangelist Church, who later gained notoriety as bishop of New York. Bishop John Hughes, circa 1861 As a way to present his side of the argument, Hughes started The Catholic Herald, the first long lived diocesan paper in Philadelphia. The newspaper would become the mouthpiece for
A “petulant girl”?: Josephine Walsh’s diaries
...n my memory forever. He told me that if I left home – I would be like the woman who tired of one husband and sought another. He told me to be a real – a real woman, and not a petulant girl. I pestered him with letters full of
Catholics in WWII
...ications in France. He stated in the letter that the coast itself was like New Jersey, however, “all of the beaches are one mass of tank barriers and fortifications which go as far as you can see.”[2] Boylan wrote to Dougherty in May of 1945 that there was little American
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