sodality

Charlie suggested to the local priest the idea of using the parish church's juvenile sodality - a religious group for young parishioners - as the basis for a football league.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

The sodality was organised on the basis of the local streets - and so the street leagues were born.

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026

They can define a block, lending sustenance, status and sodality in equal measure — and a sense of belonging in a city fueled by self-reliance.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2016

She was a member of the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase, the Kiwanis Club and the sodality at the Catholic Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 24, 2015

Everyone knows Limerick is the holiest city in Ireland because it has the Arch Confraternity of the Holy Family, the biggest sodality in the world.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

They were busy: during the week, there were morning masses, evening devotions, sodalities, weddings, funerals and confessions.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2018

It is true that this resentment nourished him, sustaining his caustic "insider" journalism on the twisted sodalities traversing Washington politics, and later his criticism of Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa and Kissinger.

From The Guardian ● May 28, 2012

Some forgotten sodalities: For months the world-straddling empire of Henry Ford has quivered and groaned like a leviathan with acute indigestion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Added to this is the appendix on the subject of the brotherhoods or sodalities, associations of laymen or charitable and devotional purposes.

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther