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. 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. 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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Augustine 1911, p. 47.
  2. 1 2 Liese, Keating & Shanley 1912, p. 489.
  3. ↑ "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). "Theobald Mathew". In Herbermann, Charles G.; Pace, Edward A.; Pallen, Condé B.; Shahan, Thomas J.; Wynne, John J. Catholic Encyclopedia. 10. New York: Encyclopedia Press (published 1913). pp. 47–48.
Liese, Wilhelm; Keating, Joseph; Shanley, Walter J. (1912). "Temperance Movements". In Herbermann, Charles G.; Pace, Edward A.; Pallen, Condé B.; Shahan, Thomas J.; Wynne, John J. Catholic Encyclopedia. 14. New York: Encyclopedia Press (published 1913). pp. 482–493.


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