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The Catholic Truth Society in the UK publishes a large range of religious booklets and leaflets on topics including Catholic apologetics, morality, doctrine, sacraments, various saints, Church history, spirituality, and prayer, as well as booklet editions of the four Gospels and other Biblical texts. The booklets are often sold inexpensively in ...
Veritas has its origins in the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland founded in 1899 on the model of the English Catholic Truth Society.It opened its first shop on Lower Abbey Street, Dublin in 1928 and the Veritas Company was established. [7]
It was the genesis work of the Catholic Truth Society, in response to an anti-Catholic literary campaign by the American Protestant Association, and a frank account of the "Black Myths" of English Protestant opposition to the Roman Catholic Church from the reign of Elizabeth I through to Catholic Emancipation and the Ecclesiastical Titles Act ...
He was the first bishop to be ordiained in Ireland since the election of Pope Francis the previous March, and in the diocese since Jeremiah Newman in 1974. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Leahy is also President of Veritas and was appointed chair of the section on interfaith dialogue of the Commission of Evangelisation and Culture of the Council of European ...
He held the chair of Dogmatic Theology in Maynooth, and became Senior Professor of Moral Theology. From 1914, Harty was president of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. He was a contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia. [2] He chaired the committee for the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 1932. [1]
As part of the Catholic Action movement in the 1930s, a pamphlet published by the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland (CTSI) titled The Serried Ranks of Catholic Action highlighted the Knights of St. Columbanus as one of the primary organisations, using militaristic terms, that could prevent the supposed domination of anti-Christian ideologies ...
As word of Matt Talbot spread, he rapidly became an icon for Ireland's Catholic temperance movement; the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association. His story soon became known to the large Irish diaspora communities. Many addiction clinics, youth hostels and statues have been named after him throughout the world.
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house " fallen women ", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.