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Special Collections — Anti-Catholic Resources

This guide describes a variety of Anti-Catholic materials held by the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives as well as the Rare Books library at The Catholic University of America.

Intolerance, the curse of our country

Review of Rev. Stuart Robinson's lecture on the 'True Protestant doctrine on the right of private judgment.'

Dealings with the inquisition; or, Papal Rome, her priests, and her Jesuits. With important disclosures.

Achilli, Giacinto
1851
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .A25 1851

Poisoning the wells - II. The eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

By American Federation of Catholic Societies. New York County Federal.
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186738911404103

Catholic answers to protestant charges.

Campaign of calumny: the New York charities investigation.

Papism in the XIX. century, in the United States: being, select contributions to the papal controversy, during 1835-40

Breckinridge, Robert Jefferson
1841
Call No.: BXZ 1770 .B7 1841

Art of lying as practised by some writers of anti-Catholic tracts.

The escaped nun: or, disclosures of convent life; and the confessions of a sister of charity.

Full title: The escaped nun: or, disclosures of convent life; and the confessions of a sister of charity. Giving a more minute detail of their inner life, and a bolder revelation of the mysteries and secrets of nunneries, than have ever before been submitted to the American public.

By Bunkley, Josephine M.
1855
Call No.: BX4216 .B8 1855

The testimony of an escaped novice from the Sisterhood of St. Joseph, Emmettsburg, Maryland, the Mother-house of the Sisters of Charity in the United States

Alternate title: Miss Bunkley’s book
By Bunkley, Josephine M.
1855
Call No.: BX4216.B8 A3 1855

Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739518104103

“Catholicism and Politics”

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739299004103

Catholics and the Bible.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739519004103

Catholics and education.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
1924
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739522804103

Catholics and the Pope.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
1924
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739517704103

Catholics in Georgia.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739517204103

Plea for peace and friendship among Catholics and Protestants.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739048204103

Pope and the War. A brief summary of some efforts of Pope Benedict XV to alleviate the unhappy results of conflict

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186738909204103

Are Catholics ignorant?

True history of Maria Monk.

Margaret L. Shepherd. The record of the shameless defamers of our sisters.

American Catholics and their accusers.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse and the anti-Catholic political movement in the United States.

Charlestown Convent; its destruction by a mob, on the night of August 11, 1834

Stanhope Burleigh. The Jesuits in our homes. A novel.

Dhu, Helen
1855
Call No.: BX3705 .D48 1855

Series of letters, addressed to the Rev. William Hawley, of Washington City, D.C....

Priest baiting in 1916: the Strong Commission now an oligarchy.

Rutherford uncovered: a resume of the reasons that lay behind Jim Brown's Manifesto.

Nightmare of infallible fallacies.

American Freedom and Paul Blanshard.

Roman Catholics of America and the Knights of Columbus.

Series of letters, addressed to the Protestant community, on the secret causes of the increase of Catholics: intended...

Lecture by the Right Rev. R. Gilmour, D.D., Bishop of Cleveland. ‘The debt America owes to Catholicity.’..

Papist misrepresented, and represented; or, a two-fold character of popery…

Reply of Rev. R.C. Grundy, to a pamphlet by a Catholic Layman, in answer to …

‘Papal pretensions’ a lecture delivered at St Joseph's Church, Charleston S C, 7

A letter on the moral causes that have produced the evil spirit of the times: addressed to the Honorable James Harper, mayor of New-York.

Including a vindication of the author from the infamous charges made against him by Jas. Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and others.
Hughes, John, Archbishop
1844
Call No.: BQ 5334 .C96 1835 no.7

A second letter on the moral causes that have produced the evil spirit of the times

Including a further vindication of the author from the infamous charges made against him by James Gordon Bennett, William L. Stone, and others.
Hughes, John, Archbishop
1844
Call No.: BQ 5334 .C96 1835 no.8
See also: https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739214004103

Archbishop Hughes in reply to General Cass, and in self-vindication.

Fairfield experiment: the story of one episode in an effort towards a better understanding

Business of vilification practiced by 'Ex-priests' and others. Public records of W.J. Delaney ... and others. 2d ed.

Shame of it: an appeal to the sense of decency of southern protestants.

You, the Catholic college graduate.

Danger in the dark: a tale of intrigue and priestcraft

Kelso, Isaac
1855
Call No.: PS2159.K43 D3 1857

Report of Commission on Religious Prejudices.

By Knights of Columbus. Commission on religious prejudices.
1915
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739008504103

What do you find wrong with the Catholic Church?

Published by Knights of Columbus - Religious Information Bureau
1959
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186738969704103

Knights of Columbus vs. criminal libel and malicious bigotry.

Mr. Paul Blanshard, the stranger in our community.

The female Jesuit; or, The spy in the family.

By Luke, Jemima Thompson
1851
Call No.: BX4215 .L85 1851

The curse of Rome. A frank confession of a Catholic priest, and a complete exposé of the immoral tyranny of the Church of Rome.

MacGrail, Joseph Francis
1907
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .M22 1907

Six years in the monasteries of Italy and two years in the islands of the Mediterranean and in Asia Minor

Containing a view of the manners and customs of the popish clergy in Ireland, France, Italy, Malta, Corfu, Zante, Smyrna, &c., with anecdotes illustrating some of the peculiar doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
Mahoney, S. I.
1836
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .M25 1836

Popery unmasked

Being an exposure of the false translations of the Rhemish Testament, to which is added differences between two Popish versions of the New Testament; expository notes of the Dublin edit. of 1816 …
McKee, Joseph
1835
Call No.: BQ 5334 .C96 1835 no.1

If the Catholic Church should prevail.

Why people hate the Church.

Answer to six months in a convent, exposing its falsehood and manifold absurdities.

By the Lady Superior. With some preliminary remarks.
By [Moffatt, Mary Anne Ursula]
1835
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739278104103

Confessions of a French Catholic priest: to which are added warnings to the people of the United States by the same author

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
1837
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .C63 1837

Counterfeit or The true story about 'the ex-nun.'

Senator Thomas E. Watson's slanders against the Good Shepherd Sisterhood.

Published by the National Catholic Welfare Council.
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739219804103

Dividing the nation; The bigot’s school issue; ... Defamers of the Church.

Published by the National Catholic Welfare Council. Press and Publicity Department.
No date
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/17ik0kb/alma99186739752704103

How to counteract anti-Catholic propaganda.

Just to bring you up to date.

Fall of the house of pedagogues.

Anti-Catholic sympathizers condemned by statesmen and churchmen.

Defamers of the Church: their character.

"Puseyism" "no Popery."

Perceval, A. P. (Arthur Philip)
1843
Call No.: BQ 5334 .C96 1835 no.5

The red Judas

Phelps, Guy Fitch
1923
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .P45 1923

Truth unveiled; or, a calm and impartial exposition of the origin and immediate…

Anti-Catholic campaign: facts and the question of policy.

Letters, being an answer to ‘Papal Rome’ by J.N. Campbell and ‘Protestant Christianity Contrasted with Romanism’ by W.B. Sprague

Letter from a Romish priest in Canada to one who was taken captive in her infancy, and instructed in the Romish faith...

Awful exposure of the atrocious plot formed by certain individuals against the clergy and nuns of Lower Canada, through the intervention of Maria Monk: with an authentic narrative of her life...

Full title: Awful exposure of the atrocious plot formed by certain individuals against the clergy and nuns of Lower Canada, through the intervention of Maria Monk: with an authentic narrative of her life, from her birth to the present moment and an account of her impositions, etc.

By Slocum, John Jay
1836 [1905?]
Call No.: BX4216.M6 A9 1905

Further disclosures by Maria Monk, concerning the Hotel Dieu nunnery of Montreal; also, her visit to Nuns' island, and disclosures concerning that secret retreat. Preceded by a Reply to the priests' book, by Rev. J. J. Slocum.

Alternate title: Awful exposure of the atrocious plot...
By Slocum, John Jay
1837
Call No.: BX4216.M6 F87 1837

The impending conflict between Romanism and Protestantism in the United States.

Smith, J. J.
1871
Call No.: BXZ 1765 .S42 1871

Address to the impartial public, on the intolerant spirit of the times.

Addressed to the Rev. N.L. Rice by ‘The Eurodelphia Society,’ of St. Joseph’s College.

By St. Joseph's College. Eurodelphian Society (Bardstown, Ky.)
1840
https://wrlc-cu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_CAA/4nnkrh/alma99186739291604103

Report of the trial of Dr. Wm. H. Stokes and Mary Blenkinsop, physician and sister superior of Mount Hope Institution...

Iron Curtain Pastoral

‘War against Christ' in France.

Popery: the foe of the church and of the Republic

Van Dyke, Joseph Smith
1871
Call No.: BT 439 .V24

A specimen of a book, intituled, Ane compendious booke, of godly and spiritual sangs, collectit out of ... the Scripture, with sundrie of other ballates changed out of prophaine sanges, for avoyding of sinne and harlotrie.

Wedderburn, James
Wedderburn, John
Wedderburn, Robert
1765
Call No.: BX1767 .S64 1765

Reply to Hon. R.W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy, addressed to the American people.

Address to the flocks of the reverend approvers of Blanco White's Internal evidence...against Catholicism.

Menace of Rutherfordism

One Flag. One Language. One School.

Catholic comments on Dr. Roy A. Burkhart's sermon.

Priest and nun

Wright, Julia McNair
1869
Call No.: PS3364 .W946p