For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for "Years in Lowell", From Recollections of Seventy Years, 1934 This item is a part of the Catholics and Industrialization section. Return to Index of Documents
Cardinal Gibbons' success in defending the Knights of Labor from condemnation had repercussions for the working class for years to come. The controversy over the Knights served as part of the impetus behind one of the most influential social…
For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for Roosevelt Safeguards America, October 8, 1936 . This item is a part of the Catholics and Politics: The 1936 Presidential Campaign section. Return to Index of Documents
For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for Shall the NRA Be Scrapped?, 1934. This item is a part of the Catholics and Politics: The 1936 Presidential Campaign section.Return to Index of Documents
This selection describes the impact of Pope Leo XII's encyclical Rerum Novarum on John A. Ryan's social thinking. The encylical supported Ryan's Populist distrust of an unregulated free market and the necessity of government intervention in the…
For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for "The Hill Cadet," October 1922 This item is a part of the Catholic Patriotism on Trial: The Oregon School Case section. Return to Index of Documents
John Ryan's family subscribed to the The Irish World, a newspaper about Ireland for those living outside that country. Ryan writes that The Irish World "was widely read and began coming into our house when I was eleven years of age, about a year…
For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for John Ryan, The Message of the Encyclicals for America Today, 1936. This item is a part of the Catholics and Politics: The 1936 Presidential Campaign section. Return to Index of…
For more information on this particular item, visit the document page for George Estes, "The Old Cedar School," 1922
This item is a part of the Catholic Patriotism on Trial: The Oregon School Case section. Return to Index of Documents