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
...revent our young men from being ruined physically and spiritually.”[5] The parishes of Archdiocese of Philadelphia raised roughly $25,000 in July 1941 for the USO campaign.[6] Sunday Dinner at the Benedict Club Initially, a total of nine agencies opened USO clubs in Philadelphia, with the Benedict Club being run by
Cornelia Connelly, S.H.C.J.
...: Mercer and Adeline. After forty-seven days at sea and a stop in southern France, the Connellys final reached Rome in February 1836. They quickly integrated into local society and were frequent visitors of the influential Borghese family and Englishman John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, who became Pierce’s
Newspapers & Periodicals
...States as well as some Catholic newspapers from Canada, England, Ireland, France and Italy. The collection contains over 300 titles, representing 35 states and the District of Columbia, and covers the period primarily from the 1820’s through the 1940’s. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1840’s through the