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Catholic Family Life Insurance was founded in the State of Wisconsin in 1868 by the Most Rev. John Martin Henni, first Archbishop of Milwaukee. In August 1868, he gathered 21 men from a variety of occupations and they established The Family Protective Association. [3] The new organization was officially incorporated in March, 1869.
More recently, CFM participated in the Pontifical Council for the Family in 2009 and the Marriage Summit of Catholic Family Life Organizations, which was organized by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2012. [17] CFM leaders participated in preparation sessions for lay movements at the Synod on the Family in Rome in 2015. [citation needed]
[1] [2] A Catholic priest and the son of a peasant farmer, Manyanet founded the congregation out of his great concern for children and family life. [3] He believed that Catholic education comprised the "most suitable, simple, and practical means of reforming the family and society with it", and that the Holy Family was the exemplary model for ...
The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life is a dicastery of the Roman Curia. Pope Francis announced its creation on 15 August 2016, effective 1 September 2016. It took over the functions and responsibilities of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and the Pontifical Council for the Family. It has responsibility "for the promotion of the life ...
Although the mutual functions of the organization were folded into Catholic Family Life, a handful of chapters remained active in some form as recently as 2019. In New Britain, Connecticut there is the Societé St. Jean Baptiste, Inc., which continues to maintain a social club with a bar and billiard tables, open to all nationalities. [8]
Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon. The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, [1] but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity.
The NACF is primarily a social movement, although its loyalty to the Catholic Church's teachings and its focus on family values often leads to a more conservative political and religious outlook. At 2018, the president of the National Association of Catholic Families was Dr. Thomas Ward. [citation needed]
Incorporated in March 1869. Claims to be the oldest Catholic fraternal order, the first to adopt the legal reserve system, first to insure women and children, and first to provide Masses for living and deceased members. Changed name to Catholic Family Life Insurance in 1949. [33]