An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...erendum on the outlawing of alcohol.[3] Church leaders, such as Cardinal Gibbon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, voiced concern over Prohibition because it infringed on “the liberty of the individuals” and would result in “secret and illicit manufacture and sale of bad liquor.”[4] The newspaper, the Catholic Standard and Times,

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