An “Un-American Invention”?: Catholics and the Issue of Prohibition
...r 5, 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment. [1] Michael deHaven Newsom, “Some Kind of Religious Freedom: National Prohibition and the Volstead Act’s Exemption for The Religious Use of Wine,” Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 70, issue 3, 2005, 746. [2] John A Ryan, Prohibition: Yes or No, (New
Catholic Interracial Council
...l council movement had a large impact on the Catholic Church and relations between whites and blacks. The councils sought to better integrate both groups within the church and strived to achieve social justice within local communities. Listen to the digitized phonograph collection of the Catholic Interracial Council here:
Parish and School Closing
...n de Porres. In Chester, all six parishes in the city would merge into one new parish called Blessed (now Saint) Katharine Drexel. Other parishes to close in 1993 included St. Elizabeth and the Church of the Gesu. Halvey_394J_071 Halvey_724J_046 Halvey_724J_041 Schools Affected In addition to parishes, a number
Packard, Butler and Partridge Lithograph Collection
...he church lithograph collection contains images of churches from Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Mississippi, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and a few from Canada, mainly Montreal. More information on the