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Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...heaters.[1] By doing so, Dougherty declared it sinful for any of the area’s 800,000 Catholics to enter a movie theater. In his letter to the priests of the Archdiocese, Dougherty called the motion picture theater “perhaps the greatest menace to faith and morals in America today.”[2] Dougherty and many others
Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...eme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family” with the goal of examining both physical and spiritual hunger. The history of the Eucharistic Congress dates to 1881, when a one-day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by more than 800 people.
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...ainting, held most Mondays. By the summer of 1946, the USO was looking to close many of the hundreds of clubs throughout the country due to the general demobilization.[15] The Philadelphia branch decided to cease funding the Benedict Club and the other agency clubs by the end of the year