Chronology
This Chronology offers a list of selected dates related to the 1919 Bishops’ Plan website.
- 1891
- Pope Leo XIII issues Rerum Novarum.
- 1892
- Populist Party offers James B. Weaver as candidate for president.
- 1892
- John A. Ryan enters seminary.
- 1900
- American Federation of Catholic Societies founded
- 1902
- Maryland adopts first Workmen's Compensation law
- 1905
- Federal Council of Churches established
- 1906
- John A. Ryan publishes A Living Wage
- 1911
- Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Commission
- 1912
- Progressive Party Convention and Platform
- 1916
- 1917
- National Catholic War Council created
- 1918
- April: Committee on Reconstruction formed by National Catholic War Council
- 1918
- November: World War I ends
- 1918
- November to December: Committee on Reconstruction refines goals and enlists John A. Ryan as author
- 1919
- February: "Bishop's Program" for Social Reconstruction issued
- 1919
- Labor upheaval, steel and other strikes
- 1919
- September: National Catholic Welfare Council formed
- 1920
- Social Action Department of National Catholic Welfare Council formed and John A. Ryan appointed as its head
- 1920
- Warren G. Harding elected president promising to return to "normalcy"