Catholic temperance movement
Catholic involvement in the temperance movement has been very strong since at least the nineteenth century with a number of specifically Catholic societies formed to encourage moderation or total abstinence from alcohol.[citation needed] In Ireland, the priest Theobald Mathew persuaded thousands of people to sign the pledge, therefore, establishing the Teetotal Abstinence Society in 1838,[1] which would later be renamed the Knights of Father Mathew.[citation needed] The League of the Cross was a Catholic total abstinence confraternity founded in 1873 by Cardinal Henry Edward Manning.[2] Many years later, in 1898, James Cullen founded the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association[2][3] in response to the fading influence of the original temperance pledge.
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References
Footnotes
- ^ Augustine 1911, p. 47.
- ^ a b Liese, Keating & Shanley 1912, p. 489.
- ^ "Who We Are: Our History". Dublin: Pioneer Total Abstinence Association. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
Bibliography
- Augustine, Father (1911). . In Herbermann, Charles G.; Pace, Edward A.; Pallen, Condé B.; Shahan, Thomas J.; Wynne, John J. (eds.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Encyclopedia Press (published 1913). pp. 47–48.
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