Mathew Carey

...n and start a paper called the Volunteer’s Journal, which was radically pro-Irish and anti-English. In 1784, after writing an article attacking Parliament, Carey had to flee to America disguised as a woman to avoid arrest.[4] AC 2000.034 Once in Philadelphia in the late Fall of 1784, Carey started a

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In Her Own Right: Jane and Marianne Campbell

...Right project they are available to study from around the world. [1] Martin-Campbell-Furlong Family Papers, 1795-1963 (MC 90) Finding aid. [2] Engbers, Susanna Kelly. "A Woman Both "New" and "True": Jane Campbell as Catholic Suffragist." American Catholic Studies 126, no. 2 (2015), 31. [3] Jane Campbell Obituary, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8195. [4] Catholic

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Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...munism” and of “social justice and… economic slavery.”[8] Such apocalyptic writing was common in the pamphlets as many Catholics saw the spread of communism as the literal destruction of society. The Spanish Civil War, although often overshadowed by World War II, had major impacts on the world and the place

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Research guide for parish histories

...rs through 1940. Requests for access to minutes after 1940 must be made in writing to the CHRC. Annual Spiritual and Financial Reports, 1897- The Parish Annual Reports begin in 1897. The spiritual, or pastoral, report contains information on the number of Catholic families and individuals in the parish, school

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