Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...America’s Protestant culture was at risk. ← Cartooning Catholics Thomas Nast →...

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

..., 1782.[8] Annual St. Patrick Dinner, 1977 By the 1790s the group began to lose membership and many members sought to change the focus from just a social group to a charitable one. This gave rise to the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland formed in 1790.[9]

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Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...parish schools were erected, especially ethnic parishes for the increasing number of southern Italian and Eastern European immigrants. Three Italian parishes in the city alone, including St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Our Lady of Pompeii, and Our Lady of Consolation, were established during Prendergast’s brief tenure.   St. Nicholas of Tolentine

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