Pope

...with presidential candidate and founder of the New-York Tribune Horace Greeley. Greeley was the nominee for both Liberal Republican and the Democratic Parties for the 1872 election. As a major supporter of President Grant, Thomas Nast connected Greeley to Tammany Hall to depict him as unfit for office. “The German

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Philadelphia’s First Catholic Cathedral

...of St. Mary in 1831, the trustees refused. In response, Kenrick suspended all religious services at the church until the trustees backed down a month later. Due to all these issues, Kenrick sought to move the cathedral to a new church. Finally in 1838, Kenrick designated St. John the Evangelist

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...help one another save our souls.”[9] A reception was held at the Conventional Hall the following night with over 15,000 people attending. Judge Vincent Carroll gave the formal welcome speech where he declared that O’Hara would be a “symbol of the only thing of value remaining in this world of

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