Victory Mass
...] During the speech, Dougherty declared that “should we lose the war… [the country] will be pounced upon by vultures, which will devour it to the bone.”[8] He continued stating that “we must win, we will win” and that the armed forces risked their “lives in the sacred cause of
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...e antithesis to Christianity and thus the only way to save the soul of the country was to side with those opposing it.[3] The archbishop of Toledo wrote to the American bishops in 1937 asking for support, stating that “the National army is defending the essential foundation of society.”[4] The
Newman Centers
...lege.[7] FCCC 1917 While the Newman club at Penn was reforming, across the country during the early 1900s, other students were forming Catholic clubs. In 1915, seven New York colleges created the Federation of College Catholic Clubs to unite these separate groups. [8] Three years later it counted 19 members
Mathew Carey
...Two years later, he published American Museum, the second magazine in the country The publication focused on American literature, which lead George Washington to say that “no more useful literary plan has ever been undertaken in America.”[5] Contributors included Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush and helped lead to an increased