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
Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...sed without cost to the servicemen. After the war it was run by the CYO to cater to all Catholic men before being turned into a rented hall.[3] In summer of 1941, the United Service Organizations (USO) started a campaign to open clubs throughout the country to build and preserve
Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
...ion illustrates the impact the IEC had on the City of Philadelphia and the Catholic Church. The 41st IEC brought Catholics together from around the world to celebrate and discuss a theme connected to the Eucharist. The theme of the 41st IEC was “The Eucharist and the Hungers of the
Pope
...lustrated the Draft Riots of July 1863, where Irish Catholics attacked African-Americans throughout New York City. Nast blamed the attacks on both the ethnicity of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing that it made them incompatible with American values. “A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the “heathens” of