Medical Mission Sisters
...ital because of Muslim laws that prohibited a male doctor from treating a woman unless it was his wife, which left many women without any medical treatment.[3] Medical Mission Sisters Photograph album https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7368 While Dengel saw the use of trained religious sisters as filling the void in India and other
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...of American agreed to stronger self-censorship and created the Production Code Administration, headed by Catholic layman, Joseph Breen.[9] Another effect of the boycott was the growth in power of the Legion of Decency, a Catholic organization which reviewed and rated movies (the history of the Legion will be explored more
Catholics in WWII
...that there are no atheists in the foxholes. Louis Meyer Photograph, Assasm India, 1844 The other major part of Dougherty’s WWII correspondence deals with chaplains, both from an administrative national level and an individual priest level. A common theme of the correspondence with Bishop John O’Hara of the Military Ordinariate
The Right Reverend Monsignor Louis Meyer papers, 1910-2007 (MC 91)
...Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania starting in 1914, was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1923, and served as a parish priest for the next 19 years. He served as an Army chaplain during World War II, and was stationed in the China-Burma-India Theater until 1946. Upon his discharge from