Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...triumph in order to restore Spain from the damage inflicted by the Second Republic and the Republican forces. Hawks went on to write for numerous Catholic newspapers and journals on the horrors of the war and the need for Catholics to support the Nationalist cause. Pamphlet on the Spanish Civil

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Catholics in WWII

...that there are no atheists in the foxholes. Louis Meyer Photograph, Assasm India, 1844 The other major part of Dougherty’s WWII correspondence deals with chaplains, both from an administrative national level and an individual priest level. A common theme of the correspondence with Bishop John O’Hara of the Military Ordinariate

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Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...er cartoon where he drew a Catholic priest trying convert a recently freed African-American family. However, behind his back the priest holds a pair of shackles, implying that through Catholicism the family will be enslaved again. It is also interesting to note, that in the background is a public school

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American Czestochowa

...s ousted from Hungary by the Communist government of the Hungarian Peoples Republic and, after a few years in Rome, traveled to the United States in 1951. After traveling and preaching at various Polish parishes here and in Canada, Father Zembrzuski wanted to find a way to strengthen and revive

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