Catholics

John L. Belford invites Theodore Roosevelt to the jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore, Maryland in June. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-18

W. E. Read has heard Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches on the topic of the Bible and the placement of Roman Catholics on the Board of Directors of the YMCA. Read shares his thoughts on Catholics being involved in the YMCA.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-06

Creator(s)

Read, W. E.

Charles Phillips notes the Catholic papers have reported on Theodore Roosevelt’s remarks on Catholics and the Young Men’s Christian Association. Phillips encloses his editorial on the subject.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

T. Augustine Dwyer presses Theodore Roosevelt to acknowledge his previous support of Dwyer in recognition for helping sway the Catholic contingency during the 1904 campaign. If not, Dwyer will publish their correspondence and no longer hold Roosevelt in esteem.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-07

Helen Thomas Flint applauds Theodore Roosevelt’s decrial of the Young Men’s Christian Association for denying Jews and Catholics the ability to hold office. She reports that the ban also includes Unitarians. As a Unitarian, she hopes Roosevelt’s influence will bring much-needed change to the organization.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-06

Charles Phillips extends sincere thanks. to Theodore Roosevelt, and will use what Roosevelt wrote to Cleveland H. Dodge regarding Catholics and the Y. M. C. A., omitting all names as Roosevelt requested. He explains that much of his interest comes through his association with Maurice Francis Egan, who also helped Phillips originally meet Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-27

As a follow-up to their recent conversation, William Roscoe Thayer sends Theodore Roosevelt a book, instructing him to read the section on Cardinal Gustav Adolf von Hohenlohe and his letter to Pope Leo XIII. He comments on the press criticizing Catholics. Thayer hopes Roosevelt will soon “lift your powerful voice” against the tariff pension.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-29

Charles William Eliot discusses reasons why there is no need for further restrictions on immigration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-10

Cleary shares with Keely what he learned regarding Catholic support of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-02

The author comments on President William H. Taft’s surprising desertion of Justice Charles Evans Hughes, especially since he was most likely to be appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. This elevation would be a reward since Hughes’ appointment to the Court removed him as a prominent candidate from the 1912 Presidential campaign, making Taft’s renomination more likely. Therefore, it is astonishing that Taft would honor Justice Edward Douglass White, a Democrat. Additionally, the author argues that the balance of power in the country now rests with the Vatican and Cardinal James Gibbons. The fear of losing the Catholic vote in the Presidential campaign has pushed Taft to appease them by elevating a Catholic to the Chief Justiceship. Hughes should resign and join the Protestant New National Party.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-12

Reverend Sole thanks President Roosevelt for his unexpected graciousness when Father Ketcham introduced them last October. He requests permission to repeat Roosevelt’s words from their meeting, and summarizes the points Roosevelt made about the treatment of Catholics. He was particularly heartened by Roosevelt’s antagonism towards the anti-Catholic American Protective Society. Sole assures Roosevelt that in the future, Catholics will be grateful for his policy decisions on “Catholic rights” issues.

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Creation Date

1909-02-04

Father Genocchi thanks Reverend Fox for the Christmas greetings, and returns the sentiment. He will happily help any of Fox’s friends who come to Rome. Autumn is the only season when he might not be in the city. Genocchi regretfully informs Fox that the “sectarian suspicion of modernism” ultimately led to the dissolution of his S. Jerome Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Everyone is in mourning for the recent earthquake in Southern Italy.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-04

Eugene A. Philbin spoke with Archbishop John M. Farley, who suggested that President Roosevelt might send Pope Pius X a message on the occasion of the jubilee marking fifty years since he became a priest. The gesture would be appreciated not just in Rome, but by Catholics in the United States. Philbin hopes to visit when he is in Washington next Wednesday.

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Creation Date

1908-11-13

Congressman Cockran forwards a telegram to William Loeb. There appears to have been a distortion of the language used by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root in their dismissal of charges against Judge Lebbeus R. Wilfley, which is creating unrest among Catholics in Shanghai, China. Cockran wanted to get the approval of Roosevelt or Root before giving this sort of an answer to Diomede Falconio, the Apostolic Delegate from whom he received the telegram.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-13

Anthony Matré tells Reverend Diomede Falconio that he has received a telegram from Catholics in Shanghai, China, through Reverend Martin Kennelly, and has given it to the Associated Press. Shanghai Catholics deny the charge of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root that they are vicious people, and have renewed their petitions for the removal of Lebbus R. Wilfley as judge of United States Court for China.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-11

Diomede Falconio forwards a telegram to Representative Cockran that he received from Anthony Matré. Falconio does not believe that President Roosevelt or Secretary of State Elihu Root ever made a statement classifying the Catholics of Shanghai as vicious, and thinks that cablegrams stating this may have been sent to rile up the Catholic population in Shanghai. He asks Cockran to look into the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-12

Bishop McCabe writes to President Roosevelt about the appointment of James Francis Smith as Governor General of the Philippines. He is concerned that Smith, a Roman Catholic, will make things difficult for Protestant missionaries; and he hopes Roosevelt will appoint someone else to the post.

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Creation Date

1906-01-27

John J. O’Rourke pleads with President Roosevelt to expand the scope of the Catholic institutions that Filipino students are sent to beyond the University of Notre Dame. There are many other Catholic institutions that are worthy of receiving these students, and limiting them to only one Catholic university produces a negative public sentiment, shown in several editorials O’Rourke encloses. O’Rourke has been told by the president of a Catholic college that they do not have special faculties for teaching courses in agricultural topics, and he encourages Roosevelt to appoint a committee of laymen to help instruct the Filipino students in practical courses of agriculture and mechanics, in addition to the courses in Classics and metaphysics that they are receiving at universities and colleges.

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Creation Date

1904-10-17

Maurice Francis Egan remarks to president Roosevelt on a number of topics, and believes that human nature, “which, after all, is not so agreeable as Rousseau and Burke would have us believe,” is at the heart of some trouble in New York. Egan also writes about a situation involving Catholics, including a gentleman from Philadelphia who recently was received by Roosevelt.

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Creation Date

1904-10-14

John O’Rourke writes to President Roosevelt to forward an article from the Kansas City Register Catholic which he says attacks Roosevelt’s administration and might have a negative effect on the outcome of the election. O’Rourke says Roosevelt has been a friend to Catholics, especially in the Philippines and offers his help in addressing the article.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-03