Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...istory and planning of how Philadelphia was chosen to host the 41st International Eucharistic Congress and details of the week-long event that happened. It covers different Masses, highlights some of the famous people who came, like Mother Teresa, Karol Wojtyła before he was pope, Dorothy Day, and Princess Grace of
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...from Msgr. McCormick, 08/08/1941, MC78_80.8310 [7] “A Report on the USO Activities in Philadelphia,” Philadelphia USO Council, 05/01/1942, MC78_80.8310 [8] The Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home, 1946, P018.034 [9] The Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home, 1946, P018.034 [10] “A Report on the USO Activities in Philadelphia,”
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...Hollywood. However, some believed that a full boycott went too far, with petitions questioning the move from State Senator McCreesh and Democratic Committee Chairman John Kelly (Princess Grace Kelly’s father).[5] One major concern of Dougherty’s was that other bishops were not joining him in the total ban. Rather places like
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons
Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons While anti-Catholic cartoons date back to the Protestant Reformation, around the 1870s there was a renewed focus on the Catholic Church in the United States. World events, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of