Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...society. In the immediate aftermath of the Orange Riot of July 12, 1871 in New York City, in which Irish Catholics clashed with the National Guard protecting an Irish Protestant parade, Nast drew a number of anti-Irish cartoons for Harper’s Weekly. One cartoon illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863,

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Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish

...ng the saint in a production on Broadway. Hawks and others even went up to New York to try to meet her after one of her performances. While she was very excited about the idea , she ultimately decided not to sit as the model because “wouldn’t it be a

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The Church and Labor

..., P004.0014 [3] Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter on Social Reconstruction, (New York: American Press, 1936), P008.334 [4] George J. Lucas, The Magna Charta of the Rights of Labor; A synopsis of Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical Rerum Novarum (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1929), P002.2029 [5] John Ryan, The Catholic

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Papal Infallibility

...Decrees in Their Bearing on Civil Allegiance: A Political Expostulation,” (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1874), P001.1442, 14 & 38. [9] W. E. Gladstone, “Vaticanism: An Answer to Reproofs and Replies,” (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875), P001.1511, 78. [10] John Henry Newman, “A letter Addressed to His Grace

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