Catholics in WWII
...t window into chaplain life. These photos show his chapel as well as life around a camp in the jungles of Southeast Asia.[11] As we commemorate the end of WWII in Europe, it is important to recognize and remember the service and sacrifice of Catholics during the war [1]
Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...e not limited to Nast, with other papers such as Puck and Judge also using caricatures of Irish as primitive and violent.[8] "Bravo, Bravo!" https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7356 The other drawing that Nast published on the front cover of Harper’s Weekly in 1871 shows an Irish man with an ape-like face attacking Columbia,
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...er may have been sold simply to raise money for the church. St. Paul's Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Catholic churches were not the only lithographs created by Packard, Butler and Partridge. The PAHRC collection includes a few lithographs of Catholic institutions: Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Brooklyn, New York
Philadelphia’s First Catholic Cathedral
...nd St. Augustine. Of the four, Old St. Mary’s was selected to be the first Catholic Cathedral of the diocese. Due to this, work soon began to increase the size of the church so that 36 new pews could be added. The trustee minutes declared that “our funds are unequal