Black Catholic periodicals
...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 Daniel Rudd, the “leading Catholic representative of
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
..., the city and county of Philadelphia had over 100,000 inhabitants. As the number of Catholics in the United States grew, Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore suggested that his immense diocese be divided, and in 1808 the Dioceses of Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Bardstown, Kentucky were established. The newly
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...s denunciation of Nazi Germany. Dougherty, along with Cardinal O’Connor of Boston, became members of the Spanish Nationalist Relief Committee, which sought to supply aid in the form of food, clothing, and medicine to those living in areas controlled by the Nationalists.[6] After the war Dougherty would be awarded the
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...oriarty’s Great Lecture for Father Lavelle,” 05/28/1864, MC75_51.204i [18] Boston Pilot, “Archbishop Wood on Secret Societies,” 01/01/1876, MC75_52.206 [19] Letter to Archbishop Wood from Bishop Shanahan, 04/19/1876, Mc75_51.869TU [20] Boston Pilot, “AOH are not Molly Maguires,” 01/01/1876, MC75_52.206 Archives Archives Select Month July 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024