Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...al years earlier and was recuperating from an accident. He proposed to The New York Tribune that they send him to Ireland where he could regain his health while reporting on social conditions in that country. Though born in Scotland, Redpath became interested in uncovering the causes of the famine
Pope
...hich Nast accuses Francis Kernan, the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, of swearing allegiance to the pope. Having Kernan declare, “I will do your bidding, as you are unfallible,” Nast shows his fear that Irish politicians would turn the United States into a theocracy (a country ruled by
Starting from Scratch: The Story of Msgr. Hawks and St. Joan of Arc Parish
...ng the saint in a production on Broadway. Hawks and others even went up to New York to try to meet her after one of her performances. While she was very excited about the idea , she ultimately decided not to sit as the model because “wouldn’t it be a
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...lets on the conflict. One notable writer was Father Edward Lodge Curran of New York, who created the International Catholic Truth Society in order to spread his views on important Catholic topics. In one of his pamphlets, he described the war as “a struggle between civilization and communism” and of