Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...eme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people.
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others
Pope visit
...60-degree view of the Mass. The structure itself took 17 days to build and cost the city $150,000. Halvey_346A_001 Halvey_346A_017 Sunday Shrines and Speeches After a short visit to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Pope John Paull II spent the night down the street at the Cardinal’s residence. While the
James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?
...nguine man, nor is my heart so fixed upon that high honor that defeat will cost me 'a night's sleep or a meal's victuals.' I firmly believe that the time has at length arrived when the Democracy of Pennsylvania may furnish a President to the union should they think proper...I