The most famous American anti-Catholic cartoon is Thomas Nast’s 1871 “The American River Ganges,” showing a squadron of crocodilic prelates from Rome attacking a group of children standing on the ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on ☩ Big Pulpit ☩. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope ...

Editor: I am appalled that The St. Augustine Record would publish the cartoon, Bizarro, on Wednesday making a joke of the Roman Catholic sacrament of reconciliation. I wonder if The Record would have ...

Throughout the history of the country, its fears and prejudices have been reflected in its political cartoons. The Japanese and Germans of World War II, the Russians of the Cold War and the terrorists ...

Historian Philip Jenkins wrote a book in 2003 about anti-Catholicism in this country with the subtitle “The Last Acceptable Prejudice.” He observed that, while any public statement or gaffe seen as ...

Since joining the National Catholic Reporter in 1997, Pat Marrin has created hundreds of cartoons depicting many diverse issues in Catholic news. Outside the Lines is a collection of 28 of Pat’s best ...

Masterson, the creator of “The Catholic Cartoon,” works on a tablet, drawing his comic strip’s main character Father Otto. Some of “The Catholic Cartoon” strips, like this one, are drawn traditionally ...

A recent Pew study on the Holy Eucharist that found that only one-third of Catholics believe in the Real Presence. How did we reach this point, and what can we do about it? This week on Register Radio ...

An editorial in the Asbury Park Press, a New Jersey newspaper, says there is "no justification for blasting" Thomas Nast, the 19th century cartoonist whose nomination for the New Jersey Hall of Fame ...

WARSAW, Poland — The bishops’ conference of Belarus accused state media of stoking anti-Catholic feeling, after an official newspaper equated priests with Nazis in a front-page cartoon. “This ...

THE controversy over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was reignited yesterday after an Italian Catholic magazine printed one on its front cover. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

This is the eBook version of our popular cartoon book. Since joining the National Catholic Reporter in 1997, Pat Marrin has created hundreds of cartoons depicting many diverse issues in Catholic news.