Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Joseph Curley strolled happily along the banks of the River Shannon last week. He gazed thoughtfully at the Irish farmhouse in Golden Isle, just outside Athlone, where he and his eight brothers & sisters were reared. He sat with closed eyes in a pew of little St. Mary's Church...
In Philadelphia, Warner-Stanley and Independent Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association threatened to close down their 475 theatres within two weeks unless the boycott of all Philadelphia cinemansions, proposed by Denis Cardinal Dougherty, was rescinded. Said Warner General Manager Joseph Bernhard:
"The boycott has not discriminated between pictures. ... A shutdown would entail unemployment for several thousand people. . . . We have offered Cardinal Dougherty the use of a suitable projection room where pictures may be viewed before release. This preview would enable him to prepare a black and white list which could serve...
In Rome Cardinal Dougherty told correspondents : "I am not interested in making any black or white lists and I will make no lists whatever. I will not recede from my position. ... I have fully informed the Holy Father of what I have done. He has blessed my work and encouraged...
The official censors of France and Italy approved the Legion. Through his Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli, Pope Pius XI made public a letter urging Catholics to make it "a duty of conscience" to improve the cinema, to film their own pictures if necessary.