Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...d War II, had major impacts on the world and the place of Catholics in it. American Catholics took an active role in writing and commenting on the war and in most cases supported the Nationalist forces out of the belief that it would restore and protect the Catholic Church.
Pope
...rated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing that it made them incompatible with American values. “A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the “heathens” of
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...per of the paper: "I shall try to make this journal an interpreter between American and Irish friends of liberty. As soon as Americans know the true story of Ireland they will support her in every wise effort to overthrow the despotic rule of England." By the third issue, published
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...d that it's purpose "shall be the preservation and publication of Catholic American historical documents, the investigation of American Catholic history, especially that of Philadelphia, and the development of interest in Catholic historical research." It appears, however, that like many historical societies, the ACHS sometimes accepted materials that did not