Old St. Joseph marriage record, June 1801

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Editorial Cartoons

...rough 1970s. Over the years, the newspaper had used both in house and syndicated cartoons. These cartoons covered major historical events, including the Vatican II, and the Civil Rights Movement. Examining the drawings reveals how Catholics reacted to world events. Earl H. Wolf (1915-1999) Earl H. Wolf was the cartoonist

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...e printed materials in the collection can be found by searching the online catalog. The catalog contains information about books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, institutions, associations, and parish history materials. Lists of our manuscript collections are available on our site as well. Staff members are currently in the process of creating

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons   While anti-Catholic cartoons 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

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