Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress

...ibit looks at the history 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,

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Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...Chiropody Society.[13] The club would also offer meals, with the Sunday roast being the most attended. Over the years as the club became more popular, the cost of running it increased from $21,000 during the first year to over $50,000 during the height of the war. Entrainment and food would

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...a serious sin. Dougherty would often clarify that the boycott was not against movies per se just the theaters so if a parish hall had a film screening of an acceptable movie then Catholics would be permitted to go to that. The difference being that the theaters were “occasions of

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Historic Anti-Catholic Cartoons

...vents, such as the new dogma of papal infallibility (the belief that the pope cannot be wrong in matters of faith), raised concerns that Catholics owed allegiance first to the Church and not to the United States. The increasing number of Catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland, led many to

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