The Story of Duffy’s Cut
...l dead. Newspapers reported that cholera was to blame, though changing the number from 57 workers to about 8 or 9. Though commemorated and remembered by a few, which is indicated by a stone wall built in 1909, the story lay buried and forgotten. 1909 stone wall built by Martin
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
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
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 In his unpublished book Peacemaking: Reflections on a Spirituality, Msgr.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