Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress

...eme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people.

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Newman Centers

...unted 19 members and would grow to 59 by 1924. The goal of the FCCC was to guide local chapters and to support the creation of new ones.[9] One avenue for this was the publication of periodicals, such as the Newman Quarterly (later Newman News), which ran from 1917 to

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The Church and Labor

...at he had “hurled his thunderbolts of authoritative doctrine” against “the world of pagan industrialism.”[5] Another Catholic theologian at the University of Illinois, Father John O’Brien, compared Pope Leo’s work to the Bill of Rights because it set forth the idea that man is endowed with natural rights in the

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Monsignor Francis X. Meehan

...ut was always looming. Msgr. Meehan, already an accomplished writer in the world of academia, wanted to bring his work to the masses. In his unpublished book Peacemaking: Reflections on a Spirituality, Msgr. Meehan explains that the work “attempts to utilize theological insights…. to apply them to contemporary issues of

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