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Article: How Catholic is the Declaration of Independence? (Catholic thought and democracy's development)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- March 8, 1996
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What has come to be called the American Catholic Revival of the 1920s can be closely linked to the experience of U.S. Catholics in World War I. Crucial to this new spirit was the creation of the National Catholic War Council, which became in 1919 the National Catholic Welfare Council (and still later the National Catholic Welfare Conference). A national headquarters and a staff, located in Washington, D.C., not only gave the church a more effective voice in public affairs, it also enhanced Catholic visibility, serving notice that a new era of purposeful Catholic participation in American life was about to begin. These developments had a tonic effect on Catholic morale and, ...