Temperance Movement
...hew, 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 organization arose. So in 1872 in Baltimore, a national convention
Catholics Responses to the Spanish Civil War
...d Hawks, were large supporters of the war effort. Cardinal Dougherty was always quick to condemn the persecution of Catholics, such as the protest against the persecution of the church in Mexico or his denunciation of Nazi Germany. Dougherty, along with Cardinal O’Connor of Boston, became members of the Spanish