If we wish to test the strength of the Catholic spirit in the industrial Diocese of late Victorian early Edwardian West Riding of Yorkshire, we should first consider what types of institutions and societies existed among them. Thus, wherever the spirit of Catholicism flourished in the hearts of the laity, it should manifest itself in the Church’s different confraternities, guilds and societies. These Catholic institutions functioned mostly independent of each other but controlled by the central council of the Church. They were an effective means of developing a new Catholic identity with forms of self-legitimisation that would come to increase Irish Catholic communal and religious life. They were indispensable to the cultural expansion of the Church and the spirit of Catholic association. The immediate purpose of these societies was a moral and spiritual provision, but they achieved much more than this. These societies worked side by side with the Catholic Church and mutually supplemented each other, becoming the twin children of the same spirit. They owed their existence to the same powerful reaction of the Church against the moral and material deterioration of English Protestant society.

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天主教协会精神：维多利亚晚期 - 爱德华早期西约克郡工业教区的天主教流行文化、社团、公会和重建的社区

如果我们想在维多利亚晚期早期爱德华七世时代的约克郡西骑区工业教区中测试天主教精神的力量，我们应该首先考虑其中存在哪些类型的机构和社会。因此，只要天主教精神在平信徒心中盛行，它就应该在教会的不同兄弟会、行会和社会中体现出来。这些天主教机构大多彼此独立运作，但由教会中央委员会控制。它们是发展具有自我合法化形式的新天主教身份的有效手段，这些形式将增加爱尔兰天主教的社区和宗教生活。它们对于教会的文化扩张和天主教协会的精神是不可或缺的。这些社会的直接目的是提供道德和精神上的规定，但他们取得的成就远不止于此。这些社团与天主教会并肩工作，相辅相成，成为同一精神的孪生子。他们的存在归功于教会对英国新教社会的道德和物质退化的同样强烈反应。