Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...became interested in uncovering the causes of the famine that had swept Ireland in the late 1870’s. The Tribune agreed to his proposal and during 1880 and 1881, Redpath made three trips to Ireland, sponsored in part by The Tribune and The Boston Pilot, to ascertain the causes of the
Alliance of Catholic Women
...given year, the Alliance would roll it over into sufficient funds were available.[8] Later, the Alliance of Catholic Women would go on to support students studying at Catholic University in D.C. and various seminaries. ACW donating layettes to Catholic Children's Bureau. Halvey M413 The Alliance also did charitable and evangelical
Pope
...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 America,” December 30, 1871
St. Peter Claver
...1906.[12] Eventually, the parish became the mother church for the growing number of Black Catholic churches in the city. The church would continue to play an important part in the lives of Black Catholics until its closure in 1985.[13] Despite the church’s closure, the spirit of the parish lived on