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Identifier: knightsofcolumbu01egan (find matches)
Title: The Knights of Columbus in peace and war
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Egan, Maurice Francis, 1852-1924 Kennedy, John James Bright, b. 1893, joint author
Subjects: Knights of Columbus World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 -- War work
Publisher: New Haven, Conn., Knights of Columbus
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cement of large bodies of men inpractical citizenship; the community benefited also by the exter-nal works of the Knights of Columbus in caring for orphans inthe localities of the councils, and by assisting all movements forthe public good, even in helping, by their contributions of timeand money, the campaigns for other activities. But the Knights recognized their limitations, or rather, imposedtheir limitations before their development had taken a decidedtrend. They had thought, perhaps, to plough the straight furrowof fraternalism, with an incidental scattering of their good seedby the wayside for those in need. But the solidity of theirsuccess in insurance and social activities compelled them to con-sider the verdict of Catholic opinion that they, having wonleadership among the organized laity by diligence and public-spiritedness, should further manifest this public-spiritedness andthis diligence by taking up the immense task of supplying thegreat need for Catholic social centers.
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The Pjermanent Home Movement 133 Perhaps because of the substantial nature of their religiousobligations and the spiritual satisfaction of fulfilling thoseobligations, perhaps because of the age-long tradition of con-servatism that makes Catholic public action a matter of slowgrowth, evoked only by extraordinary occasions, perhaps bepauseof the combination of ultra-sentitiveness and insufficient apprecia-tion of their own strength that has for long been the handicap ofCatholic social action, the fact is that only within recent years haveCatholics as Catholics come to the realization that while they arevery thoroughly grounded spiritually, they have not the best meth-ods of applying the social values of their faith. Through othersocieties, non-Catholics, generally, had a rallying-point for theirreligio-social activities. The Catholics had no such centers. Cath-olic young men, unless blessed by the very rare parish or collegeclub, were forced to go to the Y. M. C. A. or the public billi

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