--Three bits of synodality in our early history:

John England and The Charleston Constitution:

http://www.fofweb.com/History/MainPrintPage.asp?iPin=ARL085&DataType=AmericanHistory&WinType=Free

American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/545
The Catholic Lay Congress of 1889

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2009/11/the-catholic-lay-congress-of-1889.html
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