Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...to open clubs throughout the country to build and preserve morale of the military.[4] Cardinal Dougherty “heartily endorsed” the endeavor and pledged “his entire cooperation” since he saw it as a way to “thwart adverse influences and prevent our young men from being ruined physically and spiritually.”[5] The parishes of
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...ems/show/7868 On May 23, 1934, Cardinal Dougherty called on all Catholics living in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to boycott motion picture theaters.[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,
Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly: a rare find
...h’s Weekly was published on August 23, 1884. This 1883 issue included Part II of Verne's "The American Robinson Crusoe" PAHRC has the most complete run of Redpath’s Illustrated Weekly. The paper has also been digitized as part the Digital Library @ Villanova University. To view the digitized issues