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
Marian Year of 1954
...Parish in Ardsley. Halvey_K444_010 MC006 - Pier Chapel of Our Lady of Port Richmond Shrine of Our Lady at Queen of Peace Parish in Ardsley Several events took place during the Marian year. A two-year exhibition of Vatican stamps, the first time displayed in the United States, opened at
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...in Natchez, Mississippi. At the time, Catholicism was going through a revival in the Mississippi Valley: old orders such as the Society of Jesus was restored and new missionary orders, such as the Society of the Sacred Heart, came from Europe with a new missionary zeal. However, with revival comes
Research Request Forms
...Philadelphia and the surrounding counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery. Please note that we cannot certify sacramental records. Certified copies must come from the parish where the sacrament occurred or by the parish that holds the records of a closed parish. CHRC has the admission records for three boys’