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
Philadelphia’s First Bishop
...ffered the safety of religious tolerance, but 50 years passed before great numbers of Catholics settled in the colony. The English-born Jesuit, Reverend Joseph Greaton, lived in Maryland as early as 1720, and traveled to Philadelphia to offer Mass and administer the sacraments. By 1729, Father Greaton had taken up
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
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...at sought the overthrow of English rule in Ireland. Their annual operating budget spent tens of thousands of dollars on their war department, including buying surplus arms and armaments from the Civil War.[3] Their first major action was an invasion of Canada in 1866, which ended in failure and pressure