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

...part of the Mass. Indeed, it was only through lawsuits in states with “bone-dry” laws like Oklahoma did Catholics preserve the right to obtain and use altar wine.[6] Catholic Total Abstinence Union https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/7025       However, this does not mean that Catholics were always in favor of alcohol. As

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Editorial Cartoons

...ch of the Gesu and the Stations of the Cross at St. Peter’s Church in West Brandywine. His cartoons were featured in The Catholic Standard and Times primarily between 1968 and 1976. John James Knudsen (1923-2008) John James Knudsen was the cartoonist for Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ The Tidings and

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Liturgical Music and Peter LaManna

...Eucharistic Congress https://chrc-phila.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/gift-of-finest-wheat.wav   Collection processed and blog post by Richard Girkin Archives Archives Select Month April 2024 March 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 May 2022 March 2022 February 2022

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Irish College, Rome. Transcripts, 1832-1848 (MC 53)

...as vice-rector of the College since 1836. Kirby served as rector for forty-one years from 1850 until he retired in 1891. In 1896, the American Catholic Historical Society’s Archivist, H. T. Henry, traveled to the Irish College in Rome and transcribed letters from American priests and bishops who had corresponded

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