Yorke was the author of the best-selling textbook '' The Ghosts of Bigotry '' , originally republished in San Francisco 1913 from new plates , the originals having been destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906 . It was the genesis work of the Catholic Truth Society , in response to an anti-Catholic literary campaign by the American Protestant Association , and a frank account of the " Black Myths " of English Protestant opposition to the Roman Catholic Church from the reign of Elizabeth I through to Catholic Emancipation and the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 in the 19th century . Its concluding chapter sets the scene of Catholic resurgence in the USA . The publisher was the Text Book Publishing Company , 641 Stevenson Street
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1906 San Francisco earthquake
Peter Yorke