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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...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 pledges to avoid the movies and ticket

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...ited States to do so.[12] One August 28, 1960, at the age of 72 he passed away and returned once more to his beloved Notre Dame where he was buried at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.[13]       [1] McAvoy, Thomas, Father O’Hara of Notre Dame: The Cardinal-Archbishop

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Catabloging

...nd flexibility in design. In keeping with our goal of keeping the catablog model accessible to all of our peers, we have limited subsequent development of UMarmot to inexpensive, easily implemented, open source alternatives." We are a less technologically-intensive institution; we use WordPress for our site; we need inexpensive and

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