Christmas

...birthday, Wolf challenges viewers to remember the purpose of the holiday. McGovern, “Beware of Shoppers Bearing Gifts,” December 18, 1969 The obsession of purchasing presents for Christmas has caused shoppers to trample over others in order to get to the next sale. Knudsen, “At the Bottom of Your Christmas List,”

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Education

...my of the Public Schools. ‘That’s right: reduce them, and they will die out.'” Nast is commenting on an historic reduction in the salaries of New York public school teachers and blaming it on a Catholic conspiracy to take over the schools. “Romish Ingratitude,” July 13, 1872 Uncle Sam, holding

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Philadelphia’s First Bishop

...e practice of their Catholic Faith in the New World. Bishop Michael Egan, n.d. The colony of Pennsylvania, chartered in 1681 with William Penn as proprietor, offered the safety of religious tolerance, but 50 years passed before great numbers of Catholics settled in the colony. The English-born Jesuit, Reverend Joseph

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