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
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
Temperance Movement
...sulted in the change.[5] Catholic Total Abstinence Union https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7025 Members of the union pledged to “abstain from… the sin of intemperance” and to “change the wretched abode of the drunkard into a home of peace and prosperity,” highlighting the belief that drinking not only threatened the salvation of the soul
Papal Infallibility
...ing ex cathedra.[7] "Tied to His Mother's Apron-Strings" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7360 One of the highest profile debates on this issue was between British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and Cardinal John Henry Newman (now Saint Newman). In a pamphlet published in 1874, Gladstone declared that Papal Infallibility was “at war with modern