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Feb 9, 2010 · Fierce competition existed between some of the nuns as to whose class had the most pagan babies. A bulletin board held the certificates, pinned to the wall. Some had a lot more than others.
May 16, 2012 · Some conspiracy mongers doubted the existence of the “pagan babies,” even suggesting that the sisters were raiding the schoolchildren’s piggybanks to fill their own coffers or the Church’s. But the “pagan babies” were actual children being looked after by missionary sisters, brothers and priests in their countries.
- RON LAJOIE
May 22, 2020 · By examining “pagan baby” campaigns in the 1920s and 1930s which urged American Catholics to contribute to the care of a faraway Chinese orphan, this article attempts to frame the historical meaning of Chinese orphan imagery, the circumstances of missionary cultural production, and the various cultural, social, and economic functions served ...
- Margaret Kuo
- 2019
NEW YORK – They were called “pagan babies,” an appellation that would never be used today. When Oblate Father Andrew Small asked who remembered them at the inaugural World Mission Dinner in New York, a few hands went up, mostly belonging to people with gray hair.
In the 1950s/early-1960s, and possibly before that, Catholic schools, including Resurrection, sponsored an ongoing drive to raise money for religious missions in foreign lands. The program was called "Adopt A Pagan Baby".
Jan 10, 2017 · Pagan babies may have disappeared from collection boxes but they started showing up in our families. A recent Pew Research Center study revealed that much of Christianity is...
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Mar 12, 2012 · My first lessons in social justice came through saving pagan babies. While the circumstances, the cost, and the rewards varied from parish to parish, most Catholic children of the 1960s “saved” at least one “pagan baby.” What exactly we learned from this could be disputed.
