Nuclear War

...ning with negotiations in 1969, SALT resulted in an agreement to limit the number of ballistic missiles held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Wolf, “Which Way?” December 15, 1953 Wolf questions whether mankind will chose the path that leads to peace or the one that leads to nuclear war.

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Pope

...cs is not their faith but their allegiance to a foreign power. In the background, the Germans can be seen cutting their bishop loose. “Something that will not ‘blow over’,” July 29, 1871 On July 12, 1871 in New York City, Irish Catholics clashed with the National Guard protecting an

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Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection

...beled 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 the former church. St. Mary's Church, Norwalk, Ohio The exterior views also have standard touches such

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American Federation of Catholic Societies

...that the Church had experienced in the mid-1800s. Despite these concerns a number of archbishops and bishops supported the new organization and it slowly started to expend. In 1903, the Pennsylvania Federation was founded with the goal of “cementing the bonds of fraternal union among the Catholic laity and the

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