Legion of Decency

...hicago. They were distributed as a means of encouraging children to take the Legion of Decency movie boycott pledge. ← Bil Keane Fundraisers →...

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...icy. NEWS Digitization of the Catholic Standard & Times Thanks to generous support from the American Catholic Historical Society, fourteen more years of Catholic Standard & Times, spanning from 1916 to 1930, have just been added to the Catholic News Archives, a free online resource that provides access to twenty

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Hometown Saint: Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in Philadelphia

...ior, be made for the Black Catholics in the area. Katharine Drexel offered support by purchasing a building that would serve as a parish chapel. Four years later, the parish of St. Ignatius, originally a German ethnic parish, was converted to serve the needs of the ever-growing African-American population in

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

...friendly to my nomination. Indeed some of their leading men say, they will support no other Northern man. Page 1 Part of the second page reads: There is an element now actively at work which may defeat all calculations and many leading men of both parties are engaged in it.

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