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509: 497: 25: 485: 227:, they gradually became disenchanted with what they saw as the irreligious and immoral implications of a socialist society until, in 1902, they proposed a motion at the Massachusetts socialist convention to formally repudiate any socialists who attacked religion or advocated violence or 122: 464: 156:, in 1851, one of eight children of Albion King Paris Moore and Katherine Leighton Moore. After the death of her mother when she was 13, she moved to live with her grandfather, Samuel Moore, who was a member of the 549: 569: 235:, in 1903. In this book Avery argued that socialism would inevitably lead to a situation where every child was an orphan under the control of the State. The book uses the example of 559: 304:, a Catholic labor organization, and would remain in that position for the rest of her life, in the process becoming one of the major proponents of a public 42: 231:. After the defeat of their motion by the convention, they withdrew from the socialist party and became fervent anti-socialists, jointly publishing a book, 349: 544: 589: 584: 599: 337: 217: 89: 61: 364: 564: 414: 108: 68: 359:, arguing that female voting could destroy family coherence. In 1913 she was made an honorary vice president of the anti-suffrage 197: 270:
She continued to be a staunch advocate for industrial workers rights. However, she now based her ideas on those put forward in
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She also came to believe that it was important for her to evangelize for the Roman Catholic Church. In 1916, with her friend
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and became an anti-Socialism activist. After her conversion, she became the founder of the Catholic labor organization
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because of her high regard for such schools. Her daughter would convert to Catholicism and eventually become a
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church. In 1880, she married another member of her church, Millard Fillmore Avery, and shortly later moved to
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Boston exposed her to a much wider range of religious and social thought. There she studied metaphysics with
35: 341: 301: 196:. Her involvement with socialism increased. A year after the death of her husband in 1890, she joined the 141: 137: 82: 374:
She continued to serve as a staunch advocate of labor reform and Catholicism until her death in 1929 of
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Carrigan, D. Owen (April 1968). "Martha Moore Avery: Crusader for Social Justice".
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business and became actively involved in religious life, joining the local
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During this time, she found herself developing a growing interest in
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Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome
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Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism
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