Beloved Cardinal Archbishop: John Francis O’Hara
...his 9 years as Archbishop.[11] O’Hara would receive the red hat on December 15, 1958, becoming the first member of the Congregation of Holy Cross to be raised to the College of Cardinals as well as more generally the first religious from the United States to do so.[12] One August
Irish Land War
...te to the Land War in Ireland over the centuries old landlordism system. By 1879, about 800 families owned half of the country’s land and acted as landlords, renting small plots of land out to the majority of the population (an estimated five million people). The Franco-Prussian war of 1870
Dougherty’s Movie Boycott
...0. [2] Ibid. [3] Frederick Lane, The Decency Wars: The Campaign to Cleanse American Culture, (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2006), 90. [4] Cardinal Dougherty, “Letter to Harry Warner,” 10/03/1934, MC 78- 81.184, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8106. [5] John McCreesh, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 01/9/1935, MC 78- 81.184; John Kelly, “Letter to Cardinal Dougherty,” 08/23/1934,
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...er action.[4] Division within led to two more failed invasions of Canada in 1870 and 1871.[5] Thanks to the collections of theAmerican Catholic Historical Society, we have the correspondence of the Fenians’ treasurer, Francis Gallagher, which documents the planning for the second invasion and the concern among most of the