Archbishop John Carroll

...Pope Pius VI made John Carroll the Superior of the Mission in the Thirteen United States of North America.[5] Based in Maryland, Carroll would come to rely on Father Ferdinand Farmer, S.J. as his main contact in Philadelphia. Farmer, who at the time administered to Catholics in the city as

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Herman Joseph Heuser papers, 1811-1933 (MC 1)

...included. The collection also contains prayers, sermons, some genealogical information, and scrapbooks with miscellaneous materials. Most of the materials in the collection are in English, though some are written in German, French, and Italian. 27 boxes, 10.4 linear ft. Researchers will find it useful to use the more recent (html)

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Thomas Nast Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...the pope, by having authority over American Catholics, was a threat to the United States government and its people. "The American River Ganges. The priests and the children" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7357 Another reason for Nast’s anti-Catholic drawings was a fear that Catholics were attacking the public school system, which Nast saw as

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Temperance Movement

...ver 66,000.[12] President Roosevelt speaking before C.T.A.U. delegates and United Mine Workers of America http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013647511/resource/ One of the largest events held by the CTAU was the 1905 annual convention in Wilkes-Barre, PA when President Teddy Roosevelt spoke as the keynote to over 80,000 people. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union continued

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