Black Catholic periodicals
...e it continued to operate until 1899. Rudd noted the paper would "give the great Catholic Church a hearing and show that it is worthy of at least a fair consideration at the hands of our race, being as it is the only place on this Continent where rich and
Papal Infallibility
...Gladstone is that Catholics will give loyalty first to Rome and second to Great Britain. This idea that a Catholic cannot be loyal citizens was also displayed is a contemporary cartoon by Thomas Nast, which showed American Catholics literally tied to the Pope at the hip. One of the papers
World War One Army Chaplains
...es were often published in the Catholic Standard and Times, which gives us great insight into the conditions that faced the American forces at the front lines. Father Wolfe saw action in the Second Battle of the Marne at Conde-en-Brie. Leading up to the battle, Wolfe moved around the different
The Day the Bronx Bomber Played in Kensington
...e stories took place in a Catholic parish in Philadelphia and involved the greatest baseball player of his time. During the 1920s, Ascension of Our Lord Parish in the city’s Kensington section sponsored one of the many independent semi-professional baseball teams in Philadelphia. In 1923 the Ascension Catholic Club was