Jack Chick (1924-2016)

Jack Chick (1924-2016) The most notable present day anti-Catholic cartoonist was Jack T. Chick, who published his first comic in 1961. He hoped to convert his readers to a radical form of apocalyptic evangelism. Jack's company, Chick Publications, has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law

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Citation Information

...ections: [Indicate cited item or series here], Collection Name, Collection number, Catholic Historical Research Center of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. Photographs: In general, only photographs from the Robert Halvey Collection are to be published with written permission from CHRC. These photographs are to be captioned: Courtesy of the

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Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal

...ell as some foreign newspapers. One of these periodicals is The Journal, a weekly Philadelphia newspaper published in 1892. The paper was created by black Catholics for the African American Catholic community. PAHRC has several issues of the paper. July 9, 1892 issue Black Catholics, made up of both free

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