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 Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...of Catholics, such as the protest against the persecution of the church in Mexico or his denunciation of Nazi Germany. Dougherty, along with Cardinal O’Connor of Boston, became members of the Spanish Nationalist Relief Committee, which sought to supply aid in the form of food, clothing, and medicine to those
Medical Mission Sisters
...as well as opened missions in Holland, Indonesia, the Gold Coast, and New Mexico.[8] Indeed, by 1950 there were over 300 sisters serving in 16 different locations around the world.[9] In the year 1944 at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan for instance, the sisters treated over 35,000 patients and