Black Catholic periodicals
...ce during the last couple decades of the 19th century. In November 1889, a number of prominent men (the actual number is not known) gathered in Baltimore for the first black Catholic lay congress in the country’s history. The emergence of this community was largely due to the efforts of
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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,
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...laying might take place in faith weather. Bishop Crane officiated on Palm Sunday 1922. A large crowd estimated from 5,000 to 10,000 blocked all the approached to the new school. By the end of May the brickwork was finished and in another month the roof was on.” The church was