10th Synod
...arishioners and invited them to mail in suggestions.[10] These suggestions helped inform the small group meetings held during 2001, which narrowed down the topics to a total of nine themes that would be discussed in the formal synod sessions. Adult faith formation, Catholic education of the youth, and youth and
Mathew Carey
...rinting shop. From there he would become friends with Lafayette, who would help Carey set up his first newspaper in America.[3] After a few years, Carey would return to Dublin and start a paper called the Volunteer’s Journal, which was radically pro-Irish and anti-English. In 1784, after writing an article
Visiting CHRC
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Temperance Movement
...me more popular, partly due to the effects of Father Matthew, a priest who helped start the temperance movement in Ireland and then traveled America from 1849-1851 to spread the cause.[3] With the growth in local societies, usually based around either parishes or dioceses, the need for a unifying national