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

...ladelphia was one of the major opponents since they believed it was more important to affect change by moral suasion than through law. Indeed, after the passage of the 18th Amendment, the Catholic Total Abstinence Union believed Prohibition would be ineffective without their continued work to change the public’s sentiments

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...llion Catholics, 2,000 priests, and 7,000 nuns.[4] While he waited for the date of his installation, O’Hara was hard at work preparing for the transition, meeting with administers form the archdiocese, such as Bishop Lamb, on numerous occasions.[5] Once the time for the installation came in January of 1952, Bishop

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...s society.”[10] Indeed, for many years the Hibernian Society used the 1771 date for the reckoning of their annual dinners and in 1898 changed their name to the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland.[11] With that the society has continued to

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Parish Mapping Project

...part of the archdiocese but are now part of another diocese. From the 1971 date it was decided to go back fifty years from that to 1921 and then another fifty years to 1871. (Update: Due to the lack of historic data on boundaries, the decision was made to map

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