Word: archdiocesan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fischer's target is the National Organization for Decent Literature, headed by Msgr. Thomas Fitzgerald, director of the Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. NODL's method, according to Fischer, is to put pressure on newsdealers, booksellers and drugstores to remove from their counters all books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers...
...welter of stories one hard fact stuck out: the white-haired, 57-year-old prelate had left his red brick palace and flown across Canada to the seclusion of a Catholic nursing home in Victoria. At midweek, an archdiocesan official confirmed his presence there "for a prolonged rest"; Apostolic Delegate Ildebrando An-toniutti would add nothing more...