TV and Radio
...sion and radio to communicate to the faithful. One of the first successful instances was in 1930 with Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s popular radio show, The Catholic Hour. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia began its own radio apostolate in 1944 and would add television in 1964 after the decree from Vatican II
Temperance Movement
...of the drunkard into a home of peace and prosperity,” highlighting the belief that drinking not only threatened the salvation of the soul but also endangered the functioning of society.[6] In addition to the national union, many societies also created regional unions as well. For instance, the Catholic Total Abstinence
Papal Infallibility
.... In a pastoral letter, Bishop Domenec of Pittsburgh, stated he opposed a definition of infallibility as he feared “the enemies of the Catholic Church would give a wrong interpretation to its meaning,” and ‘dissenting brethren would make use of this definition to oppose the Catholic Church.”[6] One wrong interpretation
Catholics in WWII
...d, with Father John Larkin stating that he was impressed by their “sincere effort to lead good Catholic lives under somewhat difficult circumstances.”[8] Larkin often wrote that many non-Catholics would attend Mass and he had high numbers of confessions. He did complain about the difficulty in attending to all the