Environment

...he process it destroyed all other life on the planet. DDT would be banned in the United States in 1973. ← Civil Rights Christmas →...

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Cartoons

...    Catholic Comic Books     Editorial Cartoons Christmas Education Vatican II Poverty Pollution Communism Nuclear War War Society Race Relations     Comic Cartoons Sullivan Family Circus Miscellaneous     Thomas Nast Pope Education     Jack Chick...

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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

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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.

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