Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...show/7364 Another cartoon a few years later also illustrates anti-Irish sentiment but in a different way. In this cartoon, a group of children representing Irish Catholic Democrats have cut down the tree of truth and have put up a sign for a new school with the slogan, “our rule, mob

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Archbishop Ryan

...eldon, 100 Years Ago: Archbishop Ray Averted Strike, Catholic Standard and Times, December 14, 1995. [12] Ryan, His Life and Times, 240 & 252 [13] Letter to Katharine Drexel from Archbishop Ryan, 09/23/1890, Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Collection, H10B, Box 48, F2. [14] 100,000 Pass His Bier: Imposing Obsequies,

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...gs in the view are one or more of the other parish buildings which are sometimes labeled but generally are not. St. Stanislaus Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin A number of the exterior views also include vignettes of the pastor or other parish buildings such as the school, rectory and convent or

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Philadelphia’s Third Archbishop

...third Archbishop, Edmond F. Prendergast (1911-1918). Catholic Standard and Times, June 3, 1911 Prendergast studied, was ordained, and served in the in the Philadelphia Archdiocese for almost a half-century by the time Pope Pius X appointed him Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan’s replacement in May 1911. He was installed as Archbishop

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