Liturgical Week

...he Liturgical Conference, an association of American clergy and laity that promotes understanding of the liturgy, to hold its 24th Annual North American Liturgical Week in the city. His goal was to have “full, active participation of the congregation to the extent permitted by the Holy Father.” Halvey_P544_001 Halvey_P797_001  

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Irish Land War

...0 March 2010 February 2010 Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe...

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...ns date back to the Protestant Reformation, around the 1870s there was a renewed focus on the Catholic Church in the United States. World events, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed

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Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...galvanic battery, as well as related ephemera. Ephemeral materials include newspaper clippings, pamphlets and broadsides publicizing his invention, lectures, as well as the school that Coad opened for boys and girls. Also included in the collection is correspondence, ephemera, some estate items, and a scrapbook relating to Patrick Coad’s family,

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