Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...and, eventually, Irish freedom. Reacting to the pro-English stance of most American newspapers concerning Ireland, in July 1882 Redpath bought the New York based newspaper McGee’s Illustrated Weekly from its publisher, Maurice Francis Egan and determined to make it a vehicle to support land reform in Ireland and promote Irish
The American Catholic Historical Researches Vol. 15 papers, ca. 1810-1898 (MC 56)
...is altruism after his religious conversion. The collection was most likely used for the publication of the Toothless Priest, Rev. Samuel Sutherland Cooper, The Founder of Mother Seton’s Institution published in the 1898 American Catholic Historical Researches Volume 15. Materials in this collection comprise of newsclippings, correspondence, a telegram, and
Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons
...rtoons, Nast demonstrated the idea that the pope, by having authority over American Catholics, was a threat to the United States government and its people. "The American River Ganges. The priests and the children" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7357 Another reason for Nast’s anti-Catholic drawings was a fear that Catholics were attacking the public
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...and schoolrooms on the next two. On July 2, the first Mass was said in the new building. Work continued on the classrooms which would be ready for September 1923. When the new building opened, attendance had increased to nearly 400 children and would grow to over 600 by 1932.