Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women has aimed for consolidated action from Catholic women Delegates attend the 1970 Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women convention on the Oregon Coast. (Sentinel archives) 5/4/2021 9:07 AM select On April 14, 1921, the Sentinel reported on the first local womenâs groups to affiliate themselves with new National Council of Catholic Women. After decades of advocacy and protest, American women had only just secured the vote nationwide. A few years earlier, while the doughboys were fighting overseas, mothers, wives and daughters had stepped into influential roles — including in the Catholic Church. By April 1921, three Northwest Catholic women’s societies had affiliated themselves with the new National Council of Catholic Women. The women’s auxiliary of Portland’s Ancient Order of Hibernians; the Confraternity of Christian Mothers in Cottonwood, Idaho; and the Women’s Order of Catholic Foresters of Seattle all wanted to be part of what would become an umbrella organization for groups across the country. Together, Catholic women reasoned, they could do greater good on a national scale.