Catholic Clerical Union Explained

The Catholic Clerical Union is an American Anglo-Catholic organization founded in 1886 as the Clerical Union for the Maintenance and Defence of Catholic Principles.

In 2006, its website listed chapters for Albany, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, New England, New York-New Jersey-Connecticut, and Northern Indiana.

An organization with the name Catholic Clerical Union was incorporated in California as a domestic non-profit on October 12, 2017 (number C4073892).

Bibliography

• Harry St Clair Hathaway, Bishops Suffragan (1909)
• The Anglo-Catholic (Periodical published at Milwaukee beginning in 1975)

Notable members

• Donald L. Garfield
• Frank Gavin
• Edward Rochie Hardy Jr.
• Henry Harrison Oberly
• Arthur Ritchie
• Robert Ritchie
• Granville Mercer Williams SSJE

See also

• Society of the Holy Cross
• Society of Catholic Priests

External links

• Archived official website
• Edward Rochie Hardy Jr., Fifty Years of the Clerical Union (1937)
• A Sermon Preached before the Vice-President and Council of the Clerical Union for the Maintenance and Defense of Catholic Principles, and the Catholic Club of Philadelphia in Memory of the Reverend Henry Robert Percival, D.D. in St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, November 10th, 1903 (1903) from Philadelphia Studies
• Program for the Philadelphia Branch of the Catholic Clerical Union for 1969-1970 from Philadelphia Studies