Communism

...orea, Knudsen highlights that its forces will accept nothing but total victory in Vietnam. Knudsen, “From Out of the Depths,” November 9, 1972 Despite the suppression of religion in the Warsaw Pact countries, Catholicism in Poland not only survived but thrived as many Poles saw their religion as a way

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Priest and Rosary Calm Tension – Oral History Interview

...belt you’re wearing.” (laughter) I remember then a bottle going zoom—right past my ears. Things were getting panicky, you know. It was very quiet while everybody was saying the rosary. But then it started to stir up again and George Fencl comes up behind me and says, “Monsignor, you think

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Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)

...the Evangelist Church (1830), which Bishop Francis P. Kenrick erected as a way to, according to Frenaye, break down the system of trustee control in the city. Trusteeism involved the practice of Catholic laity assuming control of the administration of churches, even to the point of hiring and firing pastors.

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Catholic Philopatrian Literary Institute records, 1870-1950 (MC 26)

..., and charitable organization. Father Sourin started the organization as a way for Catholic men to continue their educational and cultural development beyond formal schooling. The Institute frequently sponsored balls, concerts, theatrical productions, and lecture series. Philopatrians quickly became a significant presence within the city as they became involved in

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