Eucharistic Congress

...to 1881, when a one day congress was held in Lille, France and attended by 800 people. The event in Philadelphia would last for a week and be attended by over 1,500,000 people including 44 Cardinals and 417 Bishops from around the world. Halvey_A429_001 Halvey_A429_052 Halvey_A429_054 Halvey_A429_056   Hungers and

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Benedict Club: A Home Away From Home

...[7] The club officially opened on December 10, 1941. The planned party was changed to a more muted affair in light of the attack on Pearl Harbor two days prior.[8] One of the many dances at the club Unlike the Benedict Club of the First World War, the new Benedict

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An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition

...of the major opponents since they believed it was more important to affect change by moral suasion than through law. Indeed, after the passage of the 18th Amendment, the Catholic Total Abstinence Union believed Prohibition would be ineffective without their continued work to change the public’s sentiments on alcohol.[7] Proceedings

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...By the 1790s the group began to lose membership and many members sought to change the focus from just a social group to a charitable one. This gave rise to the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland formed in 1790.[9] When the Friendly Sons stopped meeting in

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