Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
...merging of Byzantine and Romanesque styles.[3] The change in design had a number of reasons, which the architect, Charles Maginnis, stated arose out of a desire for a “distinctively American” church that would allow for a blending of the architecture in Washington D.C.[4] Another practical reason was the contemporary building
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
Edward F. Hawks papers, 1900-1952 (MC 15)
...attract converts and lapsed Catholics. Hawks was a well-known writer and lecturer. For more than 30 years, he wrote a column on current events for the diocesan paper The Catholic Standard and Times. From 1936-1938, after becoming a domestic prelate, he toured Spain to gather accounts of the Civil War
Alberto Rivera
...estimony of a man named Alberto Rivera. He claimed to be an ex-Jesuit from Spain, although there is no evidence to support this. Rivera would go on to allege the Catholic Church used the Jesuits as secret police to do everything from the creation of Islam, to the assassination Abraham