Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...ture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others felt that most of the movies being shown were indecent and that drastic action was need to send a message to Hollywood. The effect of the boycott was immediate, over 300,000 Catholics signing
“An Appeal to Truth”
...hese bad feelings, and of reestablishing on its foundations of justice, to-day so shaken, the union in love of all the children of the great Catholic family?” (12) Unfortunately, I have been unable to ascertain if the German bishops agreed to a tribunal or even responded to this public letter.
A lengthy and active military career
...shed by the U.S. government, located in the northwestern corner of present-day Nebraska. This agency served as one of the centers of activity during the Sioux Wars of 1876-77. The government assigned troops to Red Cloud Agency in March 1874 after the killing of an agency clerk. The military encampment
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...usband Austin Montgomery. Growing up, Cornelia went with her parents on Sundays to Second Presbyterian Church at Third and Arch streets. She continued to frequent the congregation until 1831, when she was baptized into the Episcopal Church at Saint Stephen’s on Tenth Street. It is uncertain as to why she