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 July
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
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
Philadelphia’s First Catholic Cathedral
...church was still over $5000 in debt. This shortfall in funds would lead to most of the problems facing Old St. Mary’s and set it on a collision course with its first three bishops. As the church struggled to raise money, the trustees attempted to lower the salaries of Bishop