Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons
...do it!'"https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/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,
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,
Jubilees and Holy Years
...as instituted by Pope Boniface VIII in 1300. Initially occurring every 100 years, the tradition was shortened to every 25 years, starting with the Jubilee of 1450. The last ordinary jubilee was the Great Jubilee of 2000, which also happened to celebrate 2,000 years since the birth of Jesus Christ.
Catholics in WWII
...stant chaplains.[6] O’Hara’s letter also included a list breaking down the number of chaplains from each diocese, in which Philadelphia had the second most with 51. As the war continued that number would increase to 68, unfortunately eight of those Philadelphia priests would die in the war, the most of