Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...he may have been in the U.S. briefly in the summer of 1798. He arrived in Albany, New York, but since he was not needed there, traveled to Saint Mary’s Church in Lancaster to work with Father Louis de Barth. (Father de Barth, a life-long friend of Bishop Egan, would
Research guide for parish histories
...ocumented by articles from both the Catholic newspaper of the time and secular newspapers. Consultors' Minute Books, 1896-1991 These provide brief descriptions of consultors meetings. The Diocesan consultors are a certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the bishop in
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...form county chapters, with only 11 counties having chapters in 1914. In many places like Columbia County, Catholics resisted joining the FCS because of concern over the perceived political problems of such a Catholic organization.[13] With the outbreak of WWI there was a change in the national landscape, with the
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...which was represented by Columbia dressed in pure white and holding a whip labeled “law.”[9] Thus for Nast, the riots that the Irish Catholics were regularly involved in demonstrated clear evidence of their inferiority and justified his concern that they would be a threat to democracy. "Chorus of Rising Patriots