--Some information complementay to this article:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrkhdbkv5tr403m/Constitution.pdf
The Original Charleston Constitution

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

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/545
American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era--