Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home
...rst year about 200 men visited the club each day and by 1943 that was up to 800.[11] The women volunteers, called the Morale Corps, would organize various themes for the dances as well as staff the offices and service desks and serve food and refreshments. The military men described
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
Fundraisers
...d at getting parishioners to contribute to fundraisers. They often showed the parish fighting off a caricature of its debt. The Handsome Hand-Sum, St. Anne Parish, April 17, 1920 Real Leaf, House of the Good Shepherd, November 20, 1921 The Score Board, St. Mary Phoenixville, March 3, 1917 Jerry Doyle,
Eleanor C. Donnelly papers. 1873-1905 (MC 48)
...newspapers, and served as editor of the Augustinian magazine, “Our Lady of Good Counsel.” This collection contains correspondence, largely from priests and Bishops throughout the United States in answer to her requests for facsimiles of episcopal seals. Also included is an autograph book containing signatures of American Confederate prisoners of