Catholic Action

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Catholic organization lay Catholic movement

Catholic Action is a lay Catholic movement, especially active in the 19th and 20th centuries, that organized non-clerical faithful to promote the Church’s social, charitable, and evangelizing mission in public life.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Katholische Aktion Österreich	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic organization ⓘ lay Catholic movement ⓘ
activity	charitable outreach ⓘ political advocacy consistent with Church teaching ⓘ religious education ⓘ social services ⓘ
aimsTo	defend the rights of the Church in public life ⓘ form lay Catholics for active participation in society ⓘ promote Christian values in politics and culture ⓘ
composition	lay faithful ⓘ
distinctFrom	clerical associations ⓘ religious orders ⓘ
excludes	clerical leadership as primary members ⓘ
geographicScope	Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNationalBranch	Catholic Action in Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Action in Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Action in Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Action in France NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Action in Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic Action in Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ Italian Catholic Action NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalPeriodOfProminence	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ
inspiredBy	Catholic social teaching NERFINISHED ⓘ Quadragesimo Anno NERFINISHED ⓘ Rerum Novarum NERFINISHED ⓘ papal encyclicals ⓘ
organizationalForm	associations of lay Catholics ⓘ student movements ⓘ workers’ associations ⓘ youth groups ⓘ
primaryGoal	promotion of the Church’s charitable mission ⓘ promotion of the Church’s evangelizing mission ⓘ promotion of the Church’s social mission ⓘ
relatedConcept	Catholic social movements NERFINISHED ⓘ Catholic youth movements ⓘ lay apostolate ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Catholicism
religiousTradition	Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church
sphereOfActivity	Catholic education and formation ⓘ charitable works ⓘ political engagement of Catholics ⓘ public life ⓘ social apostolate ⓘ
supportedBy	Pope Leo XIII NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Pius XI NERFINISHED ⓘ Pope Pius XII NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Catholic Church in Austria → hasOrganization → Catholic Action ⓘ

this entity surface form: Katholische Aktion Österreich

Ubi arcano Dei consilio → subject → Catholic Action ⓘ