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
Catabloging
...hrough my employment here, I am a member of the Delaware Valley Archivists Group, or DVAG, and have found the association's meetings to be very informative and educational. It was at a DVAG meeting a couple of years ago that Cathleen Miller, who at the time was serving as Project
Catholic Interracial Council
...by the white employees in protest. McGarry, the WPIF, and other religious groups then pressured the Irish Catholic union leaders to stop the strike.[9] However, the strike would ultimately end after a Federal government intervention. Anna McGarry In 1946, CIIC and the WPIF were combined into one organization when McGarry
Edward F. Hawks papers, 1900-1952 (MC 15)
...egations. Hawks had been a member of the Companions of the Holy Saviour, a group founded in Philadelphia by Father William McGarvey, which promoted a more Catholic understanding of the Episcopal Church. After converting, Hawks left his home in Canada and became a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, where