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National Catholic Welfare Conference
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Formerly the National Catholic Welfare Council. Organization inaugurated September 24, 1919, which succeeded the emergency National Catholic War Council founded in 1917. Its administrative Committee is established in five departments:
- Department of Education, which safeguards the interests of Catholic education
- Department of Press, Publicity, and Literature, which has charge of the news service and issues the N.C.W.C. weekly news sheet to 3 dailies and 84 weeklies
- Department of Social Action, which deals with industrial relations, civiceducation, social welfare, and rural life
- Department of Laws and Legislation, which protects Catholic interests in state and nation
- Department of Lay Organization, which endeavors to organize Catholic men and women
The Executive Department supervises the work of the Welfare Conference as a whole and keeps in touch with government officials. The work undertaken and inaugurated by these various departments includes study clubs, religious vacation schools, Catholic clubs in non-Catholic colleges, week-day religious instruction for public-school children, collection of Catholic war records, retreats for the laity, organization of Catholic farm women, and publication of Catholic book lists for teacher-training institutions. Today it is carried on by committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Entry for 'National Catholic Welfare Conference'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/n/national-catholic-welfare-conference.html. 1910.
