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Abstract: This issue opens with "Shifting Moods and Shifting Discourses: Hopelessness at the Intersection of American Catholicism and Psychology" by Barbara K. Sain (University of St. Thomas). The article explores Out of the Depths, a 1971 book by Father William Collins, CSS, that recounts his long struggle with anxiety and depression. Placing the book in historical context, Sain uses Collins's account to show how Catholic understanding of mental health and mental illness changed over the course of the mid-twentieth century, as older neo-Scholastic categories came to be reexamined in light of medical and psychological insights.The issue next features "Unorthodox Pleas for Contract Schools: Mother Mary Joseph Lynch and the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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- Shifting Moods and Shifting Discourses: Hopelessness at the Intersection
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Abstract: It was a poverty-stricken little library sheltered by the dusty glass doors. Its anemic contents offered no solid food for my deep, emotional hunger pains. Just what was I looking for, anyway' Hope! Hope was the only word that came to mind…. Despairingly, I closed the glass doors of the bookcase. With pitiless regularity, every hopeful door I had opened, I had to close again on the emptiness, the nothingness it revealed. There was nothingness in this bookcase … nothingness in any book … nothingness at the hospital … nothing in Dr. Mack's office … nothing at the altar … nothing in prayer.1These words from William Collins's 1971 memoir, Out of the Depths: The Story of a Priest-Patient in a Mental Hospital, capture a ... Read More
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- Unorthodox Pleas for Contract Schools: Mother Mary Joseph Lynch and the
Boarding School for Native Students in Morris, Minnesota-
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Abstract: Mother Mary Joseph Lynch was late. The sisters, a group of largely Irish and Irish American Sisters of Mercy, waiting in the community room of their Portland, Oregon, convent, were probably not surprised. Some, like her assistant, Sister Agnes Boland, had been with Lynch since her days in Brooklyn and could easily speak to her superior's energy and ambition but also to her restlessness and perhaps to her more than occasional tardiness. Indeed, the reverend mother's surviving letters with their long run-on sentences, sparce punctuation, and abrupt shifts in topic and tone suggest both zeal and distractibility. Mother Lynch's lateness this time was of greater concern, as the sisters had been preparing to celebrate ... Read More
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- The Heroics of Cabrini
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Abstract: In 1947, Citizen Saint, a semi-documentary film about the life of Mother Frances Cabrini, opened in Washington, DC. It then played in major cities throughout the country over the next year including New York and Chicago.1 The movie took advantage of the canonization of Cabrini the year before to tell the story of the Italian nun who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and migrated to the United States in 1889 where she built a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, and convents.2The film, produced by Clyde Elliot and directed by Harold Young, however, leaves much to be desired. Long stretches of didactic explanation of Cabrini's moral character and achievements by various characters and ... Read More
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- Preserving in Faith: A New Exhibit on Dorothy Day
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Abstract: In 2011, historian David O'Brien reaffirmed a claim he made more than three decades earlier, that Dorothy Day is "the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism."1 Over the past decade, this bold declaration has been bolstered by continued interest in the life of this Servant of God by people across polarized divides. In his remarks at his final general audience as pope on Ash Wednesday 2013, Pope Benedict XVI praised Day and the role of grace in leading her to "a conscious adherence to the Church, in a life dedicated to the underprivileged."2 Pope Francis named her as one of four model Americans in his historic address to the United States Congress in 2015 and ... Read More
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- The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Abstract: The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton opened a new $4 million museum and visitor center in September 2023. This new museum now anchors the multicomponent historic site situated on a small section of the 269 acres in Emmitsburg, Maryland, to which Mother Seton brought her first companions in 1809 and where she founded her congregation, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph. Focusing on her personal history, the museum seeks to illustrate through text, images, artifacts, video, and interactive displays how Mother Seton went through the hardships and uncertainty in life that many people experience today.The new museum and visitor center are located inside the former entrance to the provincial house, with the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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- Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of
Silence, and a Search for Justice by Christine Kenneally (review)-
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Abstract: Has the glare of clergy sexual abuse blinded journalists, lawmakers, and scholars to other forms of violence against children' Have we ignored abuse by nuns' These are the questions that sustained Australian journalist Christine Kenneally through her yearslong investigation into children murdered by nuns at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont.Drawing on an impressive and broad range of sources—including interviews, courtroom transcripts, local records, and church archives—Kenneally paints a haunting portrait of the everyday violence experienced at St. Joseph's during the 1940s–1960s. An exemplary and much-needed addition to accounts of child abuse in the church, Ghosts of the Orphanage builds upon ... Read More
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- C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947 by Mark A.
Noll (review)-
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Abstract: Acknowledging Snyder's America Discovers C. S. Lewis (2016), Marsden's C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity (2016), and Derrick's The Fame of C. S. Lewis (2018) as "outstanding recent studies" (3), Mark A. Noll's C. S. Lewis in America proceeds to differentiate the reception Lewis received among Catholics (Chapter One), in secular mainstream and academic media (Chapter Two), and among Protestants (Chapter Three), not only detailing what the reviews say about Lewis but inferring what they reveal about the reviewers and their American context in the 1930s and 1940s. Each chapter is followed by a different scholar's essay in response.Chapter One points with surprise to Catholics as Lewis's most consistently appreciative ... Read More
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- Making Catholic America: Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era by William S. Cossen (review)-
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Abstract: Cossen's 2016 Penn State dissertation, "The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind: Interreligious Encounters in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," lays the groundwork for subsequent articles and now this first book—a trim but forceful argument on the insertion of Catholics into American culture. He asserts that while they had to contend with waves of anti-Catholic sentiment, once they arrived here and grew their numbers, Catholics eschewed the part of the outsider. Why struggle for acceptance when they considered themselves as much American as their Protestant neighbors' Nowhere is this more notable than in the period between the 1870s and 1920s.To buttress his claims, Cossen points to key people, places ... Read More
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- Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision by Margaret M.
McGuinness (review)-
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Abstract: Margaret M. McGuinness has written a worthy introductory text for anyone interested in learning about Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament (SBS). The relatively thin monograph covers the congregation's founding to the present. McGuinness cuts through the hagiography that sainthood casts over actual people, and she restores Drexel and the SBS to their historical context.The first few chapters on Drexel's early life and the founding of the SBS do not break new ground, primarily relying on already published biographies. What McGuinness adds, however, is an examination of the SBS' complicated relationship to race. She challenges those who believe Drexel to be the patron saint of racial justice ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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- Young Latino Catholics: Stories of Faith ed. by Hosffman Ospino and
Timothy Matovina (review)-
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Abstract: Young Latino Catholics is an edited collection of stories edited by Hosffman Ospino and Timothy Matovina, who accomplish the extraordinary task of inviting a variety of Latino/a voices of emerging adults from different lived experiences and social locations. Each author offers unique experiences of faith that enfold within the framework of the lived realities of their immigrant Latino communities and families navigating the challenges and hopes of the United States culture.In Chapter One, Brenda Noriega conveys critical moments in her formation journey as a student in high school, a member of her grupo de pastoral juvenil (Hispanic Young Adult Group), and the critical role of those who have accompanied her and ... Read More
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- City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los
Angeles by Sean T. Dempsey (review)-
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Abstract: Over the last few decades, historians of Catholicism have done much work to excavate the rich history of ecumenical liberal and progressive church-based social movement organizing in postwar American cities. Sean Dempsey's City of Dignity, which focusses on the varied reform and liberationist efforts of mainline Protestants and Catholics in Los Angeles, has much to offer this scholarship. Across six chapters, Sean Dempsey argues that liberal church people, recognizing the vaunted position organized religion has historically played in the United States, deployed the power and capital they held, whether it was social, cultural, or economic, to address some of the most important issues affecting Angelenos. In their ... Read More
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- Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History by
Michael T. Rizzi (review)-
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Abstract: While "Jesuit" is generally a well-known descriptor in Catholic higher education, the history of that network, qua network, has not been previously available in a single volume. Rizzi's book is now a signpost for anyone thinking about the longer history and bigger picture of the nation's largest group of Catholic colleges and universities.In a brief preface, the author notes that this book builds on previously published work treating individual universities, Jesuit history more broadly, or general themes in Catholic higher education. Rizzi establishes the work's goal as "weav[ing] these different perspectives together into something resembling a coherent narrative" (ix) and describes the final product as "an ... Read More
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- Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions by William A.
Calvo-Quirós (review)-
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Abstract: "How does faith migrate' And … how does migration transform devotional practices and religious meanings" (6)' Such are the broad questions guiding William A. Calvo-Quirós's book Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Migrating Devotions. Through profiles of five popular vernacular Mexican saints—Jesús Malverde, Santa Olguita and Juan Soldado, Saint Toribio Romo, and La Santa Muerte—Calvo-Quirós offers a theory and methodology of Latinx/Mexican folk sainthood that interprets such figures as "archives of social knowledge that can help us unveil the hidden historical, sociopolitical, economic, and racial struggles of Latinx communities" (13). Structured chronologically by the emergence of the folk saint's figure ... Read More
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- Unlearning White Supremacy: A Spirituality for Racial Liberation by Alex
Mikulich (review)-
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Abstract: In his latest book, Unlearning White Supremacy, Alex Mikulich attempts to offer theological and spiritual tools for undoing White supremacy. Mikulich identifies a lack of spirituality materials for White people of faith and justice who are not professional scholars (xviii). He states that the book is for those willing to put in the hard work of unlearning White supremacy's more insidious and subtle impacts. Mikulich breaks the text into two main sections. In the first half, Mikulich unpacks historical foundations and present-day amnesia of White supremacy in both society and Church. In the second half, Mikulich uses the works of M. Shawn Copeland, Bryan Massingale, and numerous other scholars to develop a ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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- Sankofa: Reaching Back for Father Clarence Joseph Rivers
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Abstract: On Episode 16 of the podcast Meet Father Rivers, scholar and poet Joseph Brown, SJ, suggests Sankofa as a useful concept in considering the legacy of Black Catholic priest, composer, and liturgist Father Clarence Joseph Rivers (1931–2004). Sankofa, a West African (Akan) concept, is conventionally translated "go back and fetch it," or in longer form, "it is not taboo to go back and retrieve what you have forgotten or lost."1 The image that communicates Sankofa, Brown explains on the podcast, is a cosmogram depicting the past in constant dialogue with the present: a bird reaching back for "an egg of knowledge" that symbolizes a "return to the past" to "bring forth what is needed for today and tomorrow."2 Rivers's ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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- Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution: A Catholic Guide by Helen
M. Alvaré (review)-
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Abstract: This guide for Catholic institutions in the United States, their leaders, and the lay faithful has a foil of sorts in the lawyers that litigated the religious freedom claims asserted by these institutions in US courts in recent years. These lawyers largely won their clients' cases, but the litigation exposed the limits of the way Catholic hospitals, schools, and other social-service institutions had accommodated themselves to culturally prevailing visions of the person and society. This book shows another way. A fruit of the author's decades of personal and professional experience, and informed by extensive interdisciplinary scholarship spanning law, sociology, social psychology, history, and theology, this book ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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