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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.
Parish Mapping Project
...parish". This lack of data has required us to dig deeper into the records, looking at parish histories and past issues of the Catholic Standard and Times of both the parish in question and parishes that were later created from the parish. By doing so, we have started to fill