Black Catholics in Philadelphia and The Journal
...lack families were able to rent pews in the gallery of Old St. Joseph. The number of black Catholics in Philadelphia grew considerably during the Haitian revolution (1791-1804) when many refugees immigrated to the city. Evidence of black Catholics can be found within the sacramental registers of the older parishes,
The Church and Labor
...P002.2029 [5] John Ryan, The Catholic Teaching on Our Industrial System, (Washington DC: National Council of Catholic Men, 1934), P002.2186 [6] John O’Brien, The Church and a Living Wage, (New York: Paulist Press, 1937), P020.136 [7] Raymond Feely, Communism and Union Labor: Where Do You Stand? (New York: Paulist Press,
American Federation of Catholic Societies
...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
Among the recently digitized images added to our online collection are a number of drawings by cartoonist Thomas Nast. In 1846 at the age of six, Nast immigrated with his mother to the United States and by age 15 he had begun drawing for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News.[1] He joined