Father Mathew's disciples: American Catholic support for temperance, 1840-1920

Church History

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 624-640

  Quinn, John F ^a  

^a SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 62449328288     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3170390     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. See Martin Marty, Pilgrims in their Own Land (New York, 1987), pp. 374-378
2. There was a Catholic temperance society in Rochester, New York, as early as 1828 and a small one in Philadelphia in 1838; see Sister Joan Bland, Hibernian Crusade: The Story of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America (Washington, D.C., 1951), p. 10
3. and Edith Jeffrey, "Reform, Renewal and Vindication: Irish Immigrants and the Catholic Total Abstinence in Antebellum Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112 (July 1988): 419
4. Quoted in Jeffrey, p. 407
5. Francis Patrick Kenrick, Diary and Visitation Record (Lancaster, Pa., 1916), p. 191
6. Jay P. Dolan, The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics 1815-1865 (Notre Dame, Ind., 1983), p. 129
7. and Thomas Spalding, The Premier See: A History of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1789-1989 (Baltimore, Md., 1989), p. 144
8. Philip Gleason, The Conservative Reformers: German American Catholics and the Social Order (Notre Dame, Ind., 1968), pp. 37-38
9. and Jed Dannenbaum, Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati from the Washingtonian Revival to the WCTU (Urbana, Ill., 1984), pp. 125-126, 151
10. Pastoral Letters of the U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1792-1940 (Washington, D.C., 1983), p. 143
11. See John F. Quinn, "Father Mathew's American Tour, 1849-1851," Éire-Ireland 30 (Spring 1995): 91-104
12. Boston Pilot, 15 November 1851
13. Ian Tyrrell, Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum American, 1800-1860 (Westport, Conn., 1979), pp. 260-261
14. Catholic Telegraph, 19 March 1853
15. Tyler Anbinder, Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s (New York, 1992), pp. 43-44
16. and Dannenbaum, pp. 122-123
17. William Corby, C.S.C., Memoirs of Chaplain Life, ed. Lawrence Kohl (1893; repr. New York, 1992), pp. 291-293
18. Norman H. Clark, Deliver Us from Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (New York, 1976), p. 49
19. Quoted in Bland, pp. 45-46
20. Joan Bland's Hibernian Crusade (Washington, D.C., 1951) remains the definitive study of the CTAU
21. Quoted in Bland, p. 60
22. John Carroll, America's first Catholic bishop, was sent by the Continental Congress on a mission to Canada in 1776; Charles Carroll, John's cousin, was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence; and John Barry was a naval officer during the Revolution
23. Centennial Temperance Volume - A Memorial of the International Temperance Conference (New York, 1877), p. 730
24. Arlene Swidler, "Catholics and the 1876 Centennial," Catholic Historical Review 62 (July 1976): 363
25. On Ireland, see Marvin R. O'Connell, John Ireland and the American Catholic Church (St. Paul, Minn., 1988), p. 9
26. David Sweeney, O.F.M., The Life of John Lancaster Spalding 1840-1916 (New York, 1965), pp. 154-155
27. Walter Elliott, "The Church and Temperance," Catholic World 51 (September 1890): 822
28. Pastoral Letters, p. 232
29. James Brady, "Father George Zurcher: Prohibitionist Priest," Catholic Historical Review 62 (July 1976): 427
30. Fr. John W. Cavanaugh, C.S.C. (1905-1919)
31. and Fr. James Burns, C.S.C. (1919-1922). In 1912 the CTAU returned to Notre Dame for its annual convention
32. Quoted in Reardon, p. 236
33. Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., The Vatican and the American Hierarchy from 1870 to 1965 (Collegeville, Minn., 1985), pp. 40-43
34. Patrick H. Ahern, The Catholic University of America, 1887-1896: The Rectorship of John J. Keane (Washington, D.C., 1948), p. 81
35. See Ronald M. Benson, "American Workers and Temperance Reform, 1866-1933" (Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1974), pp. 150-165
36. Quoted in Fogarty, p. 91
37. See Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-1896, ed. Carolyn Gifford (Urbana, Ill., 1995), pp. 397-398
38. and Bordin, pp. 168-170
39. Christopher J. Kauflman, Faith and Fraternalism: The History of the Knights of Columbus, 1882-1982, rev. ed. (New York, 1992), p. 136
40. Colman J. Barry, O.S.B., The Catholic Church and German Americans (Milwaukee, Wisc., 1953), pp. 17-18
41. Quoted in Gleason, p. 37
42. See "Holy Beer Scourged," Voice, 12 May 1898
43. Rev. George Zurcher, Foreign Ideas in the Catholic Church in America (East Aurora, N.Y., 1896)
44. and Zurcher, Monks and their Decline (Buffalo, N.Y., 1898)
45. Joseph V.Tracy, "Prohibition and Catholics," Catholic World 51 (August 1890): 669
46. For similar arguments, see James M. Cleary, "Intemperance: The Evil and the Remedy," Catholic World 58 (October 1893): 11-18
47. and A. F. Hewit, "Immoral Use and Sale of Intoxicants," Catholic World 60 (October 1894): 1-11
48. Peter Hogan, S.S.J., The Catholic University of America, 1896-1903: The Rectorship of Thomas J. Conaty (Washington, D.C., 1949), p. 15
49. Quoted in O'Connell, p. 432
50. O'Connell, pp. 432-435
51. Quoted in James Hennesey, S.J., American Catholics (New York, 1981), p. 231
52. See William E. Ellis, "Patrick Henry Callahan: A Maverick Catholic and the Prohibition Issue," Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 92 (Spring 1994): 178-195
53. James Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920 (Cambridge, Mass., 1963), p. 183
54. and Benson, pp. 273-274
55. Quoted in John Tracy Ellis, The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons: Archbishop of Baltimore, 1834-1921 (Milwaukee, Wisc., 1952), 2:537
56. See John A. Ryan, "The Evolution of an Anti-Prohibitionist," in Questions of the Day (Freeport, N.Y., 1931), pp. 29-36