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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

No author or publisher
1923
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6364

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

No author or publisher
1858
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10545

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

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

Was St. Peter ever in Rome?

By Allnatt, C.F.B.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14421

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

By American Federation of Catholic Societies. New York County Federal.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/9708

Catholic answers to protestant charges.

By Anstruther, G. Elliot.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1564

Campaign of calumny: the New York charities investigation.

By Blakely, Paul L., S.J.
1916
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1369

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.

By Bridgett, T.E., C.SS.R.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/773

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1766

“Catholicism and Politics”

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1909

Catholics and the Bible.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1958

Catholics and education.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
1924
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1945

Catholics and the Pope.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
1924
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1961

Catholics in Georgia.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1966

Plea for peace and friendship among Catholics and Protestants.

Published by Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/9690

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/9738

Are Catholics ignorant?

Published by Catholic Truth Society
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/730

True history of Maria Monk.

Published by Catholic Truth Society (San Francisco)
1898
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14136

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

Published by Catholic Truth Society (San Francisco)
1898
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/7407

American Catholics and their accusers.

Published by Central Bureau of the Central Verein
1915
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/522

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

By Connors, Francis John
1927
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/11294

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

Published by Patrick Donahoe
1870
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/2235

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.

By Felix, Richard, O.S.B.
1937
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10724

Nightmare of infallible fallacies.

By Forrest, M. D., M.S.C.
1954
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/8378

American Freedom and Paul Blanshard.

Answering Paul Blanshard.

Anti-Catholic Motive.

Christ losing his world.

Roman Catholics of America and the Knights of Columbus.

By Gallivan, James A.
1915
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10629

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

By [Gandolphy, Peter.]
1826
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/11469

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

By Gilmour, Richard, Bishop of Cleveland
1880
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6774

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

By Hopkins, Thomas F.
1894
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/9193

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/11416

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

By Hughes, John, Archbishop
1854
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/715

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

Published by Inquiry
1927
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/4114

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

Published by International Catholic Truth Society
1905
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1305

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

By Johnston, Lucian.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/11610

Catholic belief.

By Keiley, Benjamin J., Bishop
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1571

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10457

What do you find wrong with the Catholic Church?

Published by Knights of Columbus - Religious Information Bureau
1959
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14565

Knights of Columbus vs. criminal libel and malicious bigotry.

By Knights of Columbus. Supreme Board of Directors.
1919
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6670

Mr. Paul Blanshard, the stranger in our community.

By Leech, George L., Bishop
1952
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/8095

Church is a failure?

By Lord, Daniel A., S.J.
1944
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/2548

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

Jesuits: Religious Rogues

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.

By McNicholas, John T., O.P., Archbishop
1935
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6112

Why people hate the Church.

By Miller, Donald F., C.SS.R.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14927

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/632

Outside approach to the Church.

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/11457

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/3680

How to counteract anti-Catholic propaganda.

Published by the National Council of Catholic Men
1949
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/5930

Just to bring you up to date.

By Noll, John Francis, Bishop
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6616

Hitler's war on the church.

Fall of the house of pedagogues.

By O'Neill, Francis, O.P.
1915
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/4143

Anti-Catholic sympathizers condemned by statesmen and churchmen.

Published by Our Sunday Visitor
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/642

Defamers of the Church: their character.

Published by Our Sunday Visitor
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/3413

"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…

By Protestant and native Philadelphian
1844
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/14177

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

By Ross, J. Elliot, C.S.P.
1923
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/640

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...

By [Séguenot, François.]
1729
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6876

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.

By Spalding, Martin John, Archbishop
1854
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/353

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://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/371

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

By Stokes, William H., Defendant
1868
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10473

Iron Curtain Pastoral

By Tisserant, Eugene, Cardinal
1949
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/6396

‘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.

By Weninger, Franz Xaver, S.J.
1877
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/10441

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

By [White, Rev. Blanco]
1826
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/351

Menace of Rutherfordism

By Windle, Bertram Charles A., Sir.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/7725

One Flag. One Language. One School.

By Windle, Bertram Charles A., Sir.
No date
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/8737

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

By Wolz, George T., Moderator.
1946
https://www.lib.cua.edu/rarebook/node/1673

Priest and nun

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

Chapter of errors in Appletons’ Universal cyclopædia and atlas