Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

...nder other cover." However, a subsequent letter reveals that Kite’s appeal struck an emotional chord in Heuser: "Miss Elizabeth S. Kite. My dear Miss Kite, Your note explaining the occasion of the communication for which you ask space in the E.R. cannot, of course, leave me indifferent. I hope to

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The Church and Labor

...Social Reconstruction [9] John Coogan, Rome and the American Labor Union, (St. Louis: Central Bureau Press), P012.0683 [10] M.F. Hennelly, The Church the Champion of the Working Man, (Dublin: The Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, 1937), P002.2298 [11] John O’Hara, 1953 Labor Day Speech, 91.282 Archives Archives Select Month June

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...for Nast, the riots that the Irish Catholics were regularly involved in demonstrated clear evidence of their inferiority and justified his concern that they would be a threat to democracy. "Chorus of Rising Patriots (?). 'We can not tell a lie! We did not do it!'"https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7364 Another cartoon a few

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World War One Army Chaplains

...cond Battle of the Marne at Conde-en-Brie. Leading up to the battle, Wolfe moved around the different platoons to administer the sacraments.[6] After the battle, Wolfe described the Americans troops as “tired and weary and sad for their dead” but able to repel the German advance “by cold steel and

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