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In an after-dinner speech at the 1966 AGM of the Catenian Association, guest speaker and newly appointed Bishop Cashman of Arundel and Brighton light-heartedly urged this nearly 60-year-old sodality to re-examine its aims and objectives in the post-Vatican II era:
The image of the Catenians as a section of the People of God dressed for dinner and dancing is not enough.1
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Harris, A. (2013). ‘The People of God Dressed for Dinner and Dancing’? English Catholic Masculinity, Religious Sociability and the Catenian Association. In: Delap, L., Morgan, S. (eds) Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281753_3
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