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.
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
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...truction of society. The Spanish Civil War, although often overshadowed by World War II, had major impacts on the world and the place of Catholics in it. American Catholics took an active role in writing and commenting on the war and in most cases supported the Nationalist forces out of
Victory Mass
SB-36; CHRC With the outbreak of World War II, the Catholic Church in America declared their support to the American war effort. Nowhere was this more evident than in Philadelphia, when Cardinal Dougherty held a Mass to “obtain from the mercy of God our country’s victory.”[1] The Mass was