Daniel A. Lord

Daniel Aloysius Lord, S.J. (23 April 1888 – 15 January 1955) was a prolific and popular American Catholic writer. His most influential work was possibly in drafting the 1930 Production Code for motion pictures.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1888, Daniel Lord attended local Catholic elementary and high school before attending S. Ignatius College. In 1909, then entered the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri. From this point forward, he lived in St. Louis, Missouri. He went on to receive an M.A. in Philosophy from St. Louis University, and taught English there from 1917-1920. He was ordained a priest in 1923.

In April 1924 Lord addressed 400 delegates of the second annual convention of the St. Louis Archdiocese Council of Catholic Women, where he spoke of the Church as an agency for breaking down provincialism. That same year he was a Commencement speaker, giving the Baccalaureate sermon at Webster University in St. Louis. He professed as a member of the Society of Jesus in 1925.

Lord became national director of the Sodality of Our Lady in 1926, also serving as editor of its magazine, The Queen's Work. A loose network of student-based charitable and devotional groups often headquartered at Jesuit educational institutions, it was labeled a dying organization before his involvement, but expanded quickly under Lord’s leadership. Lord drafted its theme song, For Christ the King, known to many mid-century American parochial school children. He also wrote, in 1941, the school song for Ursuline College in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lord stepped down from editorship in 1948, but continued to write for the magazine for the remainder of his life, producing more than 90 books, over 300 pamphlets, and countless articles, plays, and songs."For a 30-year period in the last century, Rev. Daniel Lord, S.J. preached his down-to-earth spirituality by distributing dozens of pamphlets on family life, children, and marriage directly to the people in parish churches."

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