Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War

...d 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 the belief that it would restore and protect the Catholic Church.

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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott

...0. [2] Ibid. [3] Frederick Lane, The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture, (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2006), 90. [4] Cardinal Dougherty, “Letter to Harry Warner,” 10/03/1934, MC 78- 81.184, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8106. [5] John McCreesh, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 01/9/1935, MC 78- 81.184; John Kelly, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 08/23/1934,

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Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara

...Catholics Install Archbishop O’Hara In Solemn Ceremony at Cathedral,” Scrapbook 2016.026 [5] “Official Press Book Elevation and Investiture His Eminence John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C,” (Philadelphia: Catholic Standard and Times: 1958) [6] “Church Bells Greet New Archbishop,” Scrapbook 2016.026 [7] “Letter to Vincent Carroll, from Bishop J. Carroll McCormick,” 12/28/1951, MC79

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Eleanor C. Donnelly papers. 1873-1905 (MC 48)

...the Augustinian magazine, “Our Lady of Good Counsel.” This collection contains correspondence, largely from priests and Bishops throughout the United States in answer to her requests for facsimiles of episcopal seals. Also included is an autograph book containing signatures of American Confederate prisoners of war held at the Johnson’s Island

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