Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...immediate, over 300,000 Catholics signing pledges to avoid the movies and ticket sales dropped around 20 percent.[3] The decrease in revenue led to numerous theater owners and movie studios writing to Dougherty asking to end the boycott; however, he replied that he had “no intention to recede” from his stance.[4]

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A Brief History of the Growing Pains of the Church in Philadelphia

...ard and Times, (July 29, 1976); “The Catholic Church in Pennsylvania before 1800,” http://omeka.pahrc.net/admin/items/show/id/7133. [6] Christine Friend, “Philadelphia’s First Bishop,” CHRC (February 22, 2010), http://www.chrc-phila.org/philadelphias-first-bishop/. [7] Martin I. J. Griffin, “Life of Bishop Conwell,” Records of the American Catholic History Society of Philadelphia, vol. 25, no. 2 (June, 1914), 160.

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Eden Hall

...d to the Society of the Sacred Heart and their academy: Eden Hall. Science class at Eden Hall It would be impossible to talk about Eden Hall without briefly mentioning Saint Madeline Sophie Barat. Born in the French town of Joigny in 1779, Madeline was taught by her brother Louis,

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Jane and Marianne Campbell: Catholic Feminists

...many articles. The periodical, according to its editor, was to “be a high class monthly magazine devoted to the best interests of Women. It is the intention of the editor,” the first issue’s editorial announcement notes,” to keep women informed of the various opportunities that are open to them; of

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