Centenarian Priest Speaks of Bells and Prayer – Oral History Interview

...the except below. http://www.pahrc.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Monaghan-pt2.2-online-cip.wav We have to learn how to say prayers together. But we have to learn how to say the prayers individually, and hungrily. When children have problems we have to teach them to kneel down first and say their prayers. We want them to learn to find

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Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...mised Land,' as seen from the Dome of St. Peter's, Rome" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7354 "Tied to His Mother's Apron-Strings" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7360 One of themes conveyed through Nast’s cartoons was that the pope was looking to rule the United States by converting its people to Catholicism. This could be seen in his cartoon drawn

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...Letter to Father Moriarty from Bishop Wood, 05/14/1864, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8441 The Molly Maguires was organized as a labor force against the coal mines. In the early days of labor unions and strikes, the Mollies chief tacit was the murder of mine bosses.[8] Starting in 1863, they began a decade long war

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...Dougherty saw this as creating division which would result in only a “milk-and-water” resolution on movies. While Cardinal Dougherty was strong in his support for the general boycott, everyday Catholics began to start wavering by the winter of 1934. Indeed, many wrote letters to Dougherty asking him to release them

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