Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...was declared “Venerable” by Pope Saint John Paul II. At the Catholic Historical Research Center, we have a few pamphlets and books about Venerable Cornelia Connelly, SCHJ, mostly written by members of her religious order. For more information, contact us and we will be glad to assist you.   [1]

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Pope

...illustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing that it made them incompatible with American values. “A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the “heathens” of

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...tered Protestant beliefs that the Catholic Church was incompatible with American values. In 1842, the American Protestant Association was formed in Philadelphia by more than 50 Protestant clergymen from every denomination. The APA’s objective was to alert the public, through lectures, publications, and revivals, to the dangers of popery, or

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Catholics in WWII

...see.”[2] Boylan wrote to Dougherty in May of 1945 that there was little American celebrations on VE day as many believed they would soon be sent to the Pacific theater in the war against Japan.[3] Throughout his letters, Boylan told of the work his chaplain would perform, including daily Masses

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