Digital Collections

...r of items that have been digitized through various digitization projects, partnerships, patron research requests, and social media initiatives. We endeavor to provide standardized descriptive practices and open access to this growing collection over the web. CHRC's Omeka site features a growing set of digitized graphics, photographs, documents, and ephemera.

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Liturgical Week

...h American Liturgical Week in the city. His goal was to have “full, active participation of the congregation to the extent permitted by the Holy Father.” Halvey_P544_001 Halvey_P797_001   Altering the Altar The four-day program which ran from August 19th to the 22nd, would include sessions, meetings, and art displays.

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The Church and Labor

...ed with socialists and communists.[7] This posed a major problem since the papal encyclicals taught “no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.”[8] Indeed, many priests and bishops called for the creation of unions with a religious foundation in order to better “restore

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...lture was at risk. ← Cartooning Catholics Thomas Nast →...

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