Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...such places.[7] Nevertheless, support continued to wane so much so that by 1938 people would write to Dougherty asking if the boycott was still in effect since they heard so little about it and local priests were giving conflicting instructions.[8] In fact, Dougherty never officially ended the boycott, so it

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Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.

...y.” [1] Despite protests from Isabella, Cornelia married Pierce on December 1, 1831. Following the marriage, Reverend Connelly was offered to lead a congregation at Holy Trinity in Natchez, Mississippi. At the time, Catholicism was going through a revival in the Mississippi Valley: old orders such as the Society of

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Collection Development Policy

...or the Catholic Standard & Times, the official Archdiocesan newspaper, from 1935 to 1999 as well as photographs for Catholic institutions that Halvey took as a freelance photographer. The object collection is largely comprised of Catholic artifacts, and includes the Cardinal Krol Memorabilia Collection. In order to support study of

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...al Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty historic Catholic newspapers and news agencies from across the country from as early as the 1830s. All

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