Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center Volume 13, Number 2 for the Study of American Catholicism Spring 1987

Newsletter Subscription Renewal O'Toole, former archivist of the Arch­ diocese of Boston and now lecturer in archives and at the If you have not already done so, now history University of Massachusetts -- and Eliza­ is the time to pay your (current) 1987 Boston, Newslet ter subscr ipt ion. The annual beth Yakel, archivist of the Archdio­ cost is $3.00. cese of Detroit. For further informa­ tion, contact Elizabeth Yakel, Catho­ lic Archives Newsletter, 1234 Washing­ Ireland and the United States Conference ton Blvd., Detroit, MI 48226, phone (313) 237-5846.

The Cushwa Center will host a confer­ ence on "Ireland and the United Annual Holy Cross Conference States: The Transatlantic Connection, The sixth annual conference on the 1800-1980" at Notre Dame on April 10 history of the Congregations of the and 11, 1987. The meeting will bring Holy Cross will be held June 19 to 21, together scholars of the Irish and 1987 at Notre Dame College, Manches­ Irish American from both experience New For further in­ sides of the Atlantic. Sessions will ter, Hampshire. formation contact Sister Carol Desco­ examine r e I ig ion, the family, emigra­ teaux, C.S.C., Notre Dame College, and For tion, economics, politics. 2321 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03104. more information contact Dr. Peter Lombardo, Center for Continuing Educa­ of Area Catholicism II: tion, University of Notre Dame, Notre History Bay Dame, IN 46556. A Conference

The Chancery Archives of the Archdio­ Catholic Archives Workshop cese of San Francisco will host its second annual conference on the his­ issue of the Catholic Ar­ The January tory of Bay Area Catholicism on Satur­ chives Newsletter announces the second day, April 25 from 8:30 A.M. until annual workshop for archivists of dio­ 12:30 P.M. at St. Mary's Cathedral in ceses, religious communities, and San Francisco. For further informa­ church organizations to be held June tion and/or registration forms write 15 to 19, 1987 at the Cenacle Retreat Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns, P.O. Box 1799, House, Boston (Brighton), MA. Regis­ Colma, CA 94014, Or call (415)944- tration fee for meals and lodging, 5211 . suppl ies is $ 27 5.00 per person. En­ rollment will be limited to 45.

The workshop will cover all basic ar­ lowell Conference on Industrial History chival functions including beginning an archives, collection development, The eighth annual Lowell Conference on and arrangement and description. Spe­ Industrial History will be held during cial topics will include grant wri t­ the last weekend of October 1987 in ing, microfilming, and records manage­ Lowell, Massachusetts. The theme of ment. Workshop materials will include this year's conference is "Immigra­ the SAA Bas ic Manual Ser ies. Local tion, Ethnicity, and the Industrial Catholic repositories will be visi­ Revolution." The 1987 conference is ted. InstructOrs will be James M. being planned in conjunction with the open i ng of the Pa trick J. Mag an Cul­ See and Catholic Education in the tural Center and its important exhibi­ United States." During the summer tion on the history of Lowell's work­ session of 1987, the Archbishop Gerety r an Fund will a course ent i tl ed ing class- i mm i q t cu I ture. A pro­ sponsor , gram is being planned to include "American Christianity" to be offered themes addressing aspects of immigra­ by Rev. James Hennessey, S.J., profes­ tion history, particularly those that sor of history at Boston College. relate to industrial, labor, and urban themes. For additional information, write to the Lowell National Histori­ on Catholic Immigration Set cal Park, 169 Merr imack Street, Lo­ Program For NBC we Il, MA O 1 85 1 •

Under a grant from NBC, the USCC Com­ munication Department will produce a Gerety Church History Fund Establïshed one-hour documentary on 19 th-century Catholic immigration for broadcast on the network. The airdate Immaculate Conception Seminary School expected is late 1987. Rev. of Theology of Seton Hall Universi ty spring Joseph Fenton, USCC network liasion, will serve as is pleased to announce that Archbishop executive producer of the documenta­ Peter L. Gerety, archbishop emeritus, ry. The producer is David Gibson of has the School of The­ given Seminary the Corporation for Educational Tele­ a of to establish ology gift $100,000 vision. a fund for the promotion of studies in the area of ecclesiastical history. The major themes of the program in­ It shall be named the Archbishop Peter clude the great waves of Catholic im­ L. Gerety Fund for Ecclesiastical His­ migrants beginning with the Irish in tory. 1846, the Germans in the 1850s, Ital­ ians, Poles, and Eastern Europeans in This fund sh�ll be administered by the the 1890s and concludes with the clos­ Rector/Dean of the Seminary School of ing of the country's borders when im­ Theology or his delegate. Msgr. Rich­ migration was restricted by the estab­ ard Liddy, Ph.D., Rector/Dean has ap­ lishment of ethnic quotas in 1924. pointed the Rev. Robert Wister, Hist. The contributions of Catholics to the EccI. D., associate dean and assistant American educational system, political professor of historical studies, to life, and entertainment will administer the annual income of this industry also be a part of the documentary. A gift. The fund will finance annual study guide is being planned for lectures in church history in the Sem­ teachers to use in schools and for inary School of Theology summer ses­ parents and other viewers at home. sion, and provide prizes for scholars The Communication Department of the who engage in archival research in the USCC will make announcements of the Archives of the Archdiocese of Newark of the at a later and other archives administered the availability program by date. New Jersey Catholic Historical Records Commission.

of Little Rock Planned The firs t annual Archb ishop Pe ter L. History of Diocese Gerety Lectures in Ecclesiastical His­ tory were presented in the fall of Bishop Andrew J. McDonald of Li ttle 1986. Msgr John Tracy Ellis gave the Rock, Arkansas has commissioned Dr. inaugural lecture entitled, "The James M. Woods, member of the faculty Church and Her universities -- A Per­ of Louisiana School for Math, Sciences spective from History" on November 3, and the Arts at Natchitoches, Louisi­ 1986. The second lecture on December ana, to write a general history of the 11, 1986 was presented by Rev. Gerald Diocese of Little Rock. The diocese Fogarty, S.J., professor of religious was formed in 1843 to be coextensive, studies in the university of virgin­ then and now, with the State of Arkan­ i a. He add r e ss ed the top ic "The Holy sas. The volume, tentatively titled,

2 � People Set Apart, will be completed In 1829, the first religious order for for the celebration of the diocese's black women, the Oblate Sisters of sesquicentennial in 1993. providence, was established in Balti­ more. Black Cathol ic lay congresses Dr. Woods, a native of Little Rock, is were held between 1889 and 1894, when a graduate of the University of Dallas there were only 100,000 black Catho­ and received the Ph.D. in history from lics. Tulane University in 1983. He is a specialist in Arkansas history and The series makes its television debut on the submitted a dissertation on "Rebellion Catholic Telecommunications Network of America and the and Realignment: Arkansas's Road to (CTNA) Secession." Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) during Black History Month in February 1987. It will then become available for distribution on videocassette for Christian Video Series Black History use by schools and parishes. Produced Debuts by Rev. Clarence Williams, C.PP.S. for the Academy of the Afro-World Communi­ ty, the series will be The first of a four-part videocassette especially to black Catholics in min i- ser ies, "Search for a Black helpful America, who their small Christian Heritage," premiered at the by number see them­ November conference of the National selves as a distinct religious minori­ Catholic Evangelization Association in ty. A poster and study guide is pres­ Cleveland. The project was funded by ently being developed for schools and a grant from the Catholic Communica­ parishes to use with the "Search for a tion Campaign with matching funds from Black Christian Heritage" series_ For the Archdiocese of Detroit's Telecom­ further information, contact Rev. munication Center. Clarence Williams, SEARCH, Box 132220, Detroit, MI 48213. Phone: (313) 921- The first program, entitled "The Miss­ 0263. ing Hyphen of the Judeo-Christian Her­ itage," looks at ancient Egypt's black culture and its role in the early bib­ lical epoch. Central to this theme is Chicago Archives Directory Compiled that the Hebrew people of Exodus were greatly influenced by their Egyptian Chicago area archivists recently com­ experience. piled a complete directory of Chicago repositories. Archival and Manu­ The second program, "The African Pres­ scripts Repositories in MetrOpolitan ence in the Bible," begins with the Chicago and the Calumet Region of story of Noah anò the Great Flood. Northwest--rndIana, edited by Conrad Here scholarship dispels some miscon­ Borntrager, O.S.M., Michael Grace, ceptions about "the curse of Ham," S.J., Kevin B. Leonard, and Stephen Noah's son who was the antecedent of McShane, lists some 180 institutional the black race, condemned by once tra­ repositories with descriptive informa­ ditional interpretations of the Bible tion about their hours, restrictions, as menial laborers. Rather, blacks holdings (total volumes, inclusive have an exal ted posi tion in bibl ical dates, predominant dates, and guides), genealogy. general descriptions of their materi­ als, and copy facilities. Funded by Profiling the rapid growth of the ear­ the Illinois Humanities Council and ly church in North Africa is the third the National Endowment for the Humani­ program, "Black Saints: The African ties, this major resource document is Roots of the Church." Over 300 black available at Chicago metropolitan li­ saints are recognized by the church. braries, research universities, and "Black Roman Cathol icism Today," the local institutional archives. Any fourth program shows that blacks have further information about this re­ been a part of the Catholic Church in source may be gained by call ing Mary America since the Age of Exploration. Janzen at the Chicago Historical Soci-

3 ety, (312) 642-4600, or Susan Sachar­ Biography of Glenmary Founder ski at Northwestern University Memori­ Announced al Hospital (312) 908-3090. Very Rev. Frank Ruff and Sister Rose­ mary Esterkamp, presidents of their respective societies of Glenmary Home Chicago Archivist Announced ì'1issioners, have jointly commissioned Chr i stopher ,}. Kau f fman to wr i te the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin announced in biography of Rev. William Howard Bish­ the of Mr. John January appointment op, founder of Glenmary. The biogra­ as assistant chancellor of J. Treanor phy is scheduled for completion in of for ar­ the Archdiocese Chicago 1989 for the celebration of Glenmary's chives and records. A native of the 50th anniversary. Bronx, New York, Treanor served as as­ sistant archivist of the Archdiocese Dr. Kauffman, a native of st. Louis, of Boston, 1982 to 1984, and curator M i ssour i, served on the f acul t ies of of the Massachuset ts Sta te Arch ives, Fontbonne and St. Louis Uni­ 1984 to 1986. He received the M.A. College to degree in history and archives methods versity prior assuming full-time work as a church historian. Since from the University of Massachusetts, 1976 he has written a two-volume his­ Boston. His duties will· include de­ of the Alexian Brothers, a his­ veloping and supervising all aspects tory of the of and a of the Archdiocesan Archives and Re­ tory Knights Columbus, of the in the Unit­ cords Center, 5150 N. Northwest High­ history Sulpicians ed States. way, Chicago. His appointment inaugu­ rates a new era at the Chicago archdi­ Born in washington, D.C., Father Bish­ ocesan archives, to which many church op was a priest of the Baltimore arch­ h istor i ans have long been den ied ac­ diocese before establ the Home cess. Mr. Treanor told The Chicago ishing Missioners of America in 1939 under Catholic (Jan. 2, 1987), "Our job is the of the Archdiocesé of to serve. I would like to see the ar­ sponsorship C inc i n n a t i. The group l a ter became chives have an open access policy. It ar known as [access to records] should be a matter popul ly Glenmary. Bishop was a charter member of the Cathol ic of interest, not qualifications Rural Life Conference at the time of from high school students to profes­ its in and sors." founding 1923 later served a five-year term as its president. He died in 1953.

Texas Catholic Historians Meet Today, Glenmary priests, brothers, and sisters are active in 78 counties in The Texas Catholic Historical Society 13 states of Appalachia and the rural held its 12th annual convention on South and Southwest. Within these March 6, 1987 at the San Luis Hotel, areas, less than one percen t of the Galveston, Texas. Professor Patrick population is Catholic, approximately Foley, Tarran t Coun ty Commun i ty Col­ 40 percent have no church affiliation, lege, Fort Worth, is president for and poverty levels are nearly double 1986 to 1988. The theme of the main the national average. Glenmary serves session was "The German and Polish the spiritual and material needs of Heritage of Catholic Texas," at which the Catholic minority, the unchurched, Hubert Pan American Universi­ Miller, and the poor. ty, pres ided. Donna Reeves-Marquard t and Louis Marquardt, Southwest Texas S ta te Un iver si ty, presented "The Ger­ man Ca thol ics from Russ i a Settle in Texas," and T. Lindsay Baker, Panhan­ dle Plains Museum, presented "The Po­ lish Catholics in Texas." Robert Lamb, C.S.B., University of St. Thom­ as, commented.

4 Health Study Progresses have started to examine their particu­ lar experience of migration only in the last years. The Irish in Sister M. Ursula Stepsis, C.S.A., pro­ twenty tain H was formed in ject director for the proposed anthol­ Bri istory Group 1980 and a conference in or­ ogy entitled Contribution of Religious organized der to h t recent research and Congregations In Health in-the United ighl igh further work. The States to the Church and SocTëty 1800- to encourage speak­ ers a number of themes such 1986, announced that all authors are explored as on the socio-eco­ in place for the various parts of the the Irish impact nomic and life of Britain, p::oj ect, financial support from r e I i­ political glOUS congregations has been obtained, the d ivers i ty of the immigrat ion ex­ and 86% of the religious congregations per ience, and the emergence of d is­ contacted have contributed research t inct Ir ish commun i ties. There was materials. particular concern about the scarcity of sources and I ack of a t ten t ion to Center for Immigration Studies the postwar period. It was considered important to launch an oral history The Center for Immigration Studies project and to establish an archive to of (C.I.S.) announces the availability of hold all types material which would reflect the of the two research papers: "rIlegaI Immigra­ full range Irish tion and the Colonization of the Amer­ historical experience in Britain. In ican Labor Market" (C. I. S. Paper No. 1984 the Irish in Britain History established its historical ar­ 1) by Philip Martin studies the many Group effects of illegal immigrants in the chives, The Irish in Britain History labor force, S6.00� and "Many Hands, Centre, in the Brent Irish Cultural Few Jobs: population, Unemployment and and Community Centre, London. For Migration in Mexico and the Caribbean" further information contact, The Irish (C.I.S. paper No.2) by Leon Bouvier in Britain History Centre, 76-82 Sal­ and David Simcox examines the immigra­ usbury Road, London NW6 6NY. tion pressures on the Un i ted Sta tes from Mexico and the Caribbean basin, $6.95. Send money order or check with Australian Catholic Newsletter order to: Center for Immigration stud­ ies, 1424 16th St., N.W. -- Suite 700, The National Catholic Research Council Washington, DC 20036. (N.C.R.C.) publishes a quarterly news­ letter containing news of interest to Latin America Training Program Ca thol ic scholars in Austral ia. Ab­ stracts of theses and dissertations to Australian Catholic The Mex ican Amer ican CuI tur a l Center relating topics are features. of these and the Latin Office of the NCCB will prominent Many are in education and the social sci­ present the 1987 Specialized Mission­ ences. Other i terns incl ude book re­ ary Training Program for Latin America views, notices of articles in learned (LAP) from Aug ust 2 to November 6. announcements of conferences Included are an extended living expe­ journals, and and summaries of re­ rience in Mexico and an intensive aca­ meetings, search in from North demic program. A basic knowledge of publications Spanish is required. (Language stud­ Amer ica and Europe. For add i t ional ies can be done at MACC prior to the information, write: N.C.R.C. Newslet­ LAP) Contact: LAP/MACC, 3019 W. ter, P.O. Box 98, Leichhardt, New French, San Antonio, TX 78228 (512)- South Wales 2040, Australia. 732-2156.

The Irish in Britain History Centre

The Irish have been settling in Brit­ ain in large numbers since the early nineteenth century, but historians

5 Duncan. This valuable bibliography Polish-American Conference Held contains over 1,600 unpublished titles of interest to historians of the Amer­ The Orchard Lake Center for Polish ican Catholic community. Studies and Culture, Orchard Lake, Mich ig an, and the Pol ish N a t ional T h eU. S . C a t ho l i c H i s to r i a n i s pu b­ Catholic Church's History and Bio­ lished by the U.S. Catholic Historical graphy Commission sponsored a joint Society. To receive a copy of the is­ conference on Polish-American church sue on "Reflections on Catholic His­ history at Orchard Lake on October 24 tory," send $6.00 plus $1.00 postage and 25, 1986. Sessions were devoted to Fulfillment Center, U.S. Catholic to the history of the Polish National Historical Society, 3 Downing Drive, Catholic Church and Polish Roman Cath­ East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816. olics in the United States.

The Orchard Lake Center sponsors a Po­ oCUSHWA CENTER ACTIVITIESo lish American Heritage Workshop during the summer that is of interest to per­ Hibernian Research Award sons seeking a deeper appreciation of Polish and Polish American culture, The Cushwa Center is pleased to an­ teachers and professionals engaged in nounce the 1987 recipient of the Hi­ pastoral ministry to Polish Americans, bernian Research Award, Dr. Dermot and students seeking academic cred i t Keogh, Department of Modern History, College, Cork, Ireland. in the Pol ish lang uage. Part ic ipan ts University Dr. s research relates to the will also benefit from the regular Keogh' American Catholic Church and Irish Na­ schedule of Polish oriented activities 1890-1922. on campus and the concurrent summer tionalism, session of Saints Cyril and Methodius Se�inary. For program information, Funded by an endowmen t from the wr r t e to: Dr. Frank Renkiewicz, Or­ Anc ien t Order of H ibern ians and the chard Lake School s, Orchard Lake, MI Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order 48033. of Hibernians, the purpose of the award is to advance research in the area of Irish-Amer ican stud ies. Two U.S. Catholic Historian Publishes awards of $2,000 will be made to scholars of academic Issue on American Catholic postdoctoral any d iscipl ine who are engaged in a Historiography research project studying the Irish exper ience in the Un i ted Sta tes. Following popular theme issues on "Wo­ Applications for the 1988 Hibernian men in the Catholic "The Community," Research Award must be made before Black Catholic Experience," and "Amer­ December 15, 1987. Requests for ican Catholic Social Thought," the appl ication forms should be addressed forthcoming issue of the U.S. Catholic to Jay P. Dolan, Director, Charles and Historian is devoted to-a-theme of Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the spec laI In teres t to church h is tor ians Study of American 614 entitled, "Reflections on Catholic Catholicism, Memorial of Notre Historiography." The articles in­ Library, University Notre IN 46556 clude: "Church History and the Theolo­ Dame, Dame, " " a n ame s e n n e s e • • I s g i by J H y , S J ; There a Mentalite in the American Research Travel Grants Cathol ie House?" by Mart in E. Marty; and liA of American Catholic Century The Cushwa Center is pleased to an­ J. Thomas. Over History" by Douglas nounce the winners of Research Travel half of the issue is devoted to the Grants for 1987: David W. Southern, bibl "Master' s Theses and iography, associate professor of history, West­ Doctoral Dissertations on Roman Catho­ minster College, Fulton, Missouri, who lic in the United States: A History is writing a monograph on Rev. John Select Bibliography," by Richard R.

6 LaFarge, S.J., and the Catholic Inter­ manuscripts must be pertinent to the racial Movement; Margot Helen King, study of the American Catholic experi­ head librarian of St. Thomas More Col­ ence. Since the series is not limited lege, University of Saskatchewan, who to studies in anyone discipline, man­ is writing a biography of Caryll uscripts from both the historical and Houselander, and Rodger Van Allen, social studies disciplines will be professor of religious studies, Villa­ cons idered. The manuscr ipt mus t not nova is University, who updating his be submitted to a publisher during the history of the Commonweal. competi tion. Selection for pub I ica­ tion will be based on an evaluation by To assist scholars who wish to use the a committee of specialized scholars of Notre University Dame's Memorial not affiliated with the Cushwa Cen­ and Library the collections of Catho­ ter. The author of the award-winning lic Americana in the of No­ University manuscript will receive a $500 award tre Dame Arch the ives, Cushwa Cen ter and the manuscript will be published annually awards Research Travel by the Universi ty of Notre Dame Grants. Scholars interested in apply­ Press. Two copies of the manuscr ipt, ing for a grant for 1988 should write together with a curriculum vitae for application forms to P. Jay DOlan, should be mailed to Jay P. Dolan, Di­ Director, Charles and Margaret Hall rector, Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa 614 Memorial Center, Library, Cushwa Center for the Study of Ameri­ Notre Dame, IN 46556. The deadline can Catholicism, 614 Memorial Library, for applying for a 1988 is grant Notre Dame, IN 46556, no later than November 30, 1987. September 1, 1987.

American Catholic Studies Seminar Cushwa Lecture on Religion and Public Life On February 16, 1987, Senator Paul Si­ The seminar met once during the spring mon of Illinois delivered the 1987 semester at Notre Dame. On February Cushwa Lecture on Religion and Public 26, Margaret Susan Thompson, professor Life. Senator Simon spoke on "ReI i­ of history, Syracuse University, pre­ gion and political Life: A Partnership sented the paper, "To Serve the People of Convenience or Conviction?" of God: Nineteenth-Century Sisters and the Creation of an American Religious " 00000000000000000000 Life. The paper is available for $3.00 per copy in the working paper series. Personal Notices

Notre Dame Studies in American James H. Bailey, who has recently re­ Catholicism - Manuscript Competition tired as curator of collections of the city of Petersburg, virginia, reports The Cushwa Center is pleased to an­ tha t a typescr ipt of h is unpubl ished nounce tha t Dr. Alden V. Brown, St. "H is tory of the D iocese of Richmond: Francis College (Brooklyn) and Queens The Middle Years (1872-1974)" has been College, is the winner of the annual given to the Virginia Historical Soci­ manuscript competition. His manu­ ety, Richmond, virginia, where it is script, "Who Shall Find a Valiant Wom­ available to interested researchers. an?" The Grail Movement and American Another copy of the typescript remains Catholic1.sm, 1940-1975, w1l1 be pub­ in the possession of the Diocese of lished by Ehe University of Notre Dame Richmond. Press in its series, Notre Dame Stud­ ies in American Catholicism. Rev. Leonard Blair, former president of the Association of Catholic Dioce­ The annual competition to select manu­ san Archivists and archivist of the scripts for publication is once again Archd iocese of Detro i t, has been ì ap­ under way. The deadl ine for subm t­ pointed to the English language office is 1 ting manuscripts September , of the Vatican Secretariat of State. 1987. To be eligible for publication,

7 Bill Brady, Atchison, Kansas, reports lines representative of actual parish tha t P'r ov idence-S t. Marg are t' s Ho s p i­ preaching would enhance her efforts to tal, Kansas City, Kansas, begins a profile an American Catholic homilet­ year-long celebrat ion of i ts cen ten­ ic.

n i a l , It is conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis of the Poor, Cincinna­ Seamus Metress, University of Toledo, ti, Ohio and the Sisters of Charity of is finishing a book on the Irish-Amer­ Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas. ican involvement in Ir ish I ibera t ion struggles. Mary Elizabeth Brown, Columbia Univer­ Sr. Barbara Misner, archivist of the sity, has completed a dissertation on School of Italian immigrants and the Catholic Sisters St. Francis, Milwau­ six weeks in Central Church in the Archdiocese of New York, kee, spent Ameri­ ca summer of 1880-1950. during the 1986 to assist the School Sisters there to keep his­ torical records and write their his­ Patrick Carey, dept. of theology, Mar­ tory. quette University, reports that paul­ ist Press will publish his American Brian C. Mitchell, National Endowment Catholic Religious Thought sometime in for the that his 1987. The book contains an introduc­ Humanities, reports book, The Camps: The Irish of tion to American Catholic religious Lowell;---ì821-1padd� 61 w111 -ne releasëO thought and an anthology of writings next year by the University of from John to John England Courtney Illinois Press. Murray. Robert T. O'Gorman, Scarritt Graduate Rev. Joseph P. Chinnici, O.F.M., Fran­ School ,--Vanderbilt University, has ciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, been doing research on base Cal is a book on ifornia, complet ing communities of Latin America and its the history of Catholic spiritual life connections with the early history of in the Un i ted Sta tes d ue a t the pub­ lay Catholic Action. lisher by August, 1987. David J. O'Brien, College of the Holy James J. Divita, Marian College, Indi­ Cross, worcester, has completed his anapolis is working on a history of centennial history of the Diucese of St. Christopher's parish in Speedway, Syracuse, New York. Ind iana, the par ish of the Ind ianapo­ lis 500-mile race. John F. piper, Jr., Dept. of History, is on a Annabelle M. Melville, Commonwealth Lycoming College, working bio­ Professor of History Emerita, Bridge­ graphy of Robert E. Speer, Presbyteri­ an leader. water, Mass., will address the Academ­ missionary ic Libraries Section of the Cathol ic Rev. Paul M. Cheverus Library Association during their an­ Sullivan, S.J., nual convention in New Orleans, April Hlgh School, Portland, Maine, has been archivist for the 20-23, 1987. She will speak on "Remi­ appointed recently niscences of Biographical Research," es tabl ished arch i ves a t Cheverus, the sharing her insights and recollections Jesuit College Preparatory High School of on research in the USA and France in Maine. preparation for writing the lives of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, John Carroll Dr. Martin G. Towey has recently been archivlst of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, John Cheverus of Boston appointed of St. Louis. and Bordeaux, and William DuBourg.

Mary E. Lyons, Franc i scan Schoo I of Sr. Patricia Wittberg, S.C., dept. of Theology, 1712 Euclid Ave., Berkeley, soclology and anthropology, Fordham California 94709, is researching Amer­ Universi ty, is completing articles on ican Catholic pastoral preaching from job satisfaction among nuns in non­ the age of Carroll forward. Loca t ing traditional ministries and opinions of sermon manuscripts, notes, and out- women religious on various feminist

8 issues. Both are based on extended from its inception to the present oral interviews. time. The author attempts to show the continuity of the tradition within Ca­ Msgr. Vincent Yzermans has been ap­ thol icism from the martyrs and paci­ to John po i n t e d a c t i ngar c h iv i s t o f t h e d i0- fists of the early church cese of St. Cloud, Minnesota while he XXIII and the peacemakers of the 20th is writing the centennial history of century. Orbis Books, 1986. 365 p. the Diocese of St. Cloud due in 1989. ISBN. 0-88344-263-9. 21.95.

The Christian Home in victorian Ameri­ Publications ca, 1840-1900�y Colleen McDannell concentrates on both the Protestant American Catholic Histo­ Experience: � and Catholic practice of religion in from colonlal Tlmes to the Present EY the 19th century. Included is a study P. Dolan will beavailable in by Jay of Protestant domestic architecture, paperback for use in fall 1987 sacred space, and a comparison of courses. Con tact 245 Park Doubleday, Protestant and Catholic liturgical New NY 10167. Avenue, York, practice. Religion in North America Series. Indiana University Press, American A Case Christianity: Approach - - 1986. ISBN 0-253 31 376 7 . 1 93 p. edited Ronald C. Lois B. by white, 25.00. Weeks, and Garth M. Rosell is availa­ ble from Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1986. 208pp. 11.95 (pbk). Christiani ty in China: Early Protes­ tant Missionary writings, edited by American Immigrant Leaders, 1880-1910: Suzanne Wilson Barnett and John King Marginality and Identity by Victor R. Fairbank has been published by the Greene examines American ethnic elites Committee on American-East Asian Rela­ of the nineteenth and early twentieth tions of the Dept. of History in col­ centuries and contends that immigrant laboration with the Council on East Asian Studies. Distributed Harvard leaders were able to promote ethnic as by Press, 1985. Harvard Stud­ well as American identity among the University ies in American-East Asian Relations; groups they represented. The Johns v.9. 237 20.00. ISBN 0-6741-2881-8. Hopkins University Press, 1987. 208 p. p. 22.50. ISBN 0-8018-3355-8. Church and State in America: A Biblio­ The Colonial-and Ear­ And Ch ildren D id Not Know Me: A graphicalGuide. !il National PeriOdS. Edited John History of the POlisï1=AmerICan� by lY by F. Wilson, this volume the John J. Bukowczyk. Indiana University surveys historiographical resources that bear Press, 1986. $27.50 hardcover; 8.95 on the church-state issues in American paper. cu I ture. Chapters consist of essays I i terature relevant to the Black Religion in the Evangelical analyz ing church-state question, and a listing South by Richard Tristano is a study of books, journal articles, of Southern black religion, mostly primary sources, and cr i tical bibl iograph ies. Methodists and Baptists, from the ear­ Greenwood 436 ISBN 0- liest days of the blacks in the South Press, 1986, p. 313-25236-X. 49.95. down to the present intended as a rap­ id overview. Separate folding map and Creationism on Trial: Evolution and chart showing the location and per­ God at Litttë-Rock, Brown centages of Black Catholics in the by Langdon Gilkey was published by Winston Press, Sou th is included. Atlanta: Glenmary Minneapolis, 1985. 301 p. ISBN 0-8668- Research Center. 64 p. ISBN 0-914422- 3780-9. 12.95. 14-6. (pbk).

The Catholic Peace Tradition by Ronald G. Musto presents a history of the peace tradition in the Catholic Church

9 Dominican Women in Texas by Sister S.W. Marlow, Portland, Oregon 97225. Sheila Hackett, O:P., tells the story 34.95. of the Dominican Sisters who have worked in Southeast Texas for more � History of Aquinas College High than a century, pub I ished by the Do­ School by Anthony J. Lisska, Ph.D. minican Sisters of Houston. 782 p. presents a history of this Dominican Copies available from: The Treasurer's institution in Columbus Ohio from its Office, 6501 Almeda Road, Houston, TX establishment in 1905 until its clos­ 77021. 24.00 plus 2.00 p/h. ing in 1965, with emphasis on its ear­ ly development as part of the overall The Dutch in America: Immigration, educational effort of the Dominicans settlement ana Cultural Change, edIted in this country. 80 p., illustrated. by Robert � Swierenga is available Available for a donation of $10.00 or from Rutgers University Press, New more toward the work of the Cathol ic Brunswick, N.J., 1985, 303 p. ISBN 0- Record Society-Diocese of Columbus, 8135-1063-5. 32.00 197 E. Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. Elizabeth Seton: Selected writings by Ellin M. Kelly and Annabelle M. Mel­ � History of the Irish in Britain: A ville includes a collection of let­ Bibl iography, by Maureen Hartigan, ters, journals, meditations, and Mary J. Hickman, and Angela Lynch con­ prayers of Mother Seton. The work of­ tains over 700 references. It should fers a close look at Elizabeth Seton's be of value to those interested in the sp i r i t ua I development in her own history of the Irish in Britain and words. Dr. Melville, in her fine in­ Irish studies in general. Copies troduction, considers some American available from: Irish in Britain Cen­ Protestant influences on Elizabeth Se­ tre, 76-82 Salusbury Road, London NW6 ton's spirituality, and illuminates 6NY. 6.00. ISBN 0-9510945-0-5. the "inner resources" which enkindled sa in thood. Ser ies: Sources of Amer i­ Horace: pr iest of the Poor, by John can Spirituality. paulist Press, S. Monahan portrays the life and work 1987. 384 p. ISBN 0-8091-0382-6. of Horace B. McKenna, S.J. (1899-1982) 16.95. who worked unceasingly all his life for the poor. Georgetown Universi ty Faith and Friendship: Catholicism in Press, 1985. 216 p. ISBN 0-87840-421- the Diocese of Syracuse, 1886-1986 by X. 14.95. David J. O'Brien has been published by the D iocese of Syracu se. H a rd cover Indianapolis Cathedral: A Construction 15.00 plus 1.50 p/h or soft cover History of Our Three Mother Churches, 10.00 plus 1.50 p/h is available from by James J. Divita is available from Diocese of Syracuse, P.O. Box 511, 240 Cathedral Rectory, 1347 North Meridian

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10 Modern American Religion: Volume 1: Parish History Collection: !2 Directory The Irony of It All, f893-1919 by Mar­ of Works in the Un ivers i ty of Notre tin E. Marty marks the first of a Dame Archives and The Universi ty of four-vol urne chronicle of the h is tory Notre Dame Memor1al�brary, compiled of twentieth century religion in Amer­ by Carolyn Mankell Sowinski and Char­ ica. the diverse Marty explores ways lotte Ames serves as a finding aid to in wh ich Amer ican r e I ig ion embraced, the combined collections of more than accepted, or rejected the modern world 2500 parishes. The Archives collec­ by advocating modernity or adopting tion contains information on more than various alternative. 1986. University 1500 parishes throughout the United of Press. 386 Chicago p. ISBN 0-226- States, with concentration on parishes 50893-5. (v. 1) 24.95. in the midwest and the Ohio River Val­ ley (Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.) Mother of the Sacred Heart: Joseph !2 The Library collection contains print­ Bibliography (1986 edition), compiled ed parish histories and some newspaper by Sister Rita Bergamini, S.P., and accounts of over one thousand Catholic Loretta Zwolak Greene, updates the parishes, and continues to expand 1978 and 1980 editions with more than through solicitation, purchase, and 300 additional entries. These entries gifts received. Notre Dame, Ind.: reference articles and publications University of Notre Dame Library, De­ printed up to 1985 about Mother Joseph partment of Special Collections, a Sister of (Esther Pariseau), pioneer 1986. 72 leaves. Providence, architect and humanitarian in the Pacific Northwest. 40 p. 6.00. Available from Sandra Haynes, Sisters "Parish Life Among the Leaders" by of Providence, 520 Pike Street, C- Dav id C. Leege has been pub I ished in 11 038 WA Notre Dame of Catholic Parish , Seattle, 98111. Study Life 9 (December, 1986): 1-18. The New England Soul: Preaching and Colonlal New �igJLc)uS Culture � Eng­ "Parish Organizations: People's Needs, land by Harry S. Stout is available Parish Services, and Leadership" by from Oxford University Press. 1986. Dav id C. Leege has been pub I ished in 398 p. ISBN 0-1950-3958-0. Notre Dame Study of Cathol ic Par ish Llfe 8 (July, 1986): 1-12. Newman and the Modernists, ed i ted by Mary Jo Weaver offers essays on Newman The Patriarchial Mission: A Documen­ by nine contributors, including Paul tary History of San Jose complIed and Misner on "The 'Liberal' Legacy of edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber marks John Henry Newman": M.J. Weaver on the twenty-first in a series of vol­ "Wilfrid Ward's Interpretation and Ap­ umes on the Cal ifornia M i ss ions com­ of and Ronald Burke plication Newman"; pleted by the Archivist for the Arch­ on "Was Newman's Modern Disci­ Loisy diocese of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Resources in Lan­ ple?" Religion, 1, Libra Press, 1986. 251 p. ham, Md.: University Press of America, 1985. 223 p. ISBN 0-8191-4687-0. People, Priests, and Prelates: Eccle­ siastical Democracy and the Tensions Our Mission: His­ Lady's !2 Documentary of Trusteeism by Patrick W. Carey is of La purisma tory Concepcion compiled the story of lay and clerical trustees by Msgr-.- Francis J. Weber includes who attempted to define religiously sixty-four documentary sources about and politically the relative rights La purisma Concepcion. It is the and duties of the members of the Amer­ twentieth of a on series the Califor­ ican Catholic church. Notre Dame nia missions inaugurated in 1975. Los Studies in American Catholicism, Vol­ Francis J. Angeles: Weber, 1981? 242 ume 8. 392 p. ISBN 0-268-01563-5. p. Available from Dawson IS Bookshop, 1987. 26.95. Los Angeles. 18.00.

11 "The People, The ir Pas tors, and the Sweetest Heart of Mary Church: A Cen­ Church: Viewpoints on Church Policies tennial Parish, by Eduard Adam Skend­ and positions" by D. C. Leege and J. zel �ffers an overview of the history, Gremillion appears in N�tre Dame Study ar ch i tecture, and restoration of the of Catholic Parish Llfe 7 (March, church. Skendzel has researched and 1"""986): 1-14. written extensively on Father Dominic Hippolytus Kolasinski, maverick pastor Peace Heroes in Twentieth Century of the pioneer Detroi t Poles of the Amerlca by Charles DeBenedetti has 1880s and 1890s. Littleshield Press been published by Indiana University 925 Flat St. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 1986. 276 p. ISBN Press, Bloomington, 49503. 2.00. 0-2533-4307-0. 22.50. The Freedom: The Legacy of in Scotland: Image and Reali­ Theologx o� "popery Jacques Marltaln and Reinhold Niebuhr 1820-1920" by Bernard Aspinwall, ty, by John W. Cooper has been pub I ished M. A. has been pubi ished in the Scot­ by Mercer University Press, Macon, GA, t ish Church H istory Soc iety Records, 1985. 185 pp. ISBN 0-8655-4172-8. volume 22 235-57. (1986), pp. 16.95. Religious Outsiders and the Making of To See the Promised Land: The Fai th Americans, by R. Laurence Moore inte­ PlIgrlmage-of Martin Luther King, Jr. grates, in a series of interlocking by Frederic�L. Downing has been pub­ essays, the stories of Mormons, Chris­ lished by Mercer University Press, Ma­ tian Scientists, Catholics, Jews, con, GA, 1986.297 p. ISBN 0-8655- and others in the ir role in Blacks, 4207-4. 27.50. the shaping of American religious cul­ ture. Oxford Press, 1986. University Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present 243 24.95. p. Failure and Future Promise of American Cathol ic---;:[ihough t on War and Peace by Sacred Heart Story by Eduard Adam George Weigel, Oxford University Skendzel, a history of the Grand Rap­ Press, pp. Xlll and 489. ISBN 0-19- ids Polish is available from pioneers, 504193-3. 27.50. Littleshield Press, 925 Flat St. NE, Grand Rapids, MI. 350 p. 11.00 includ­ ing postage. Trial and Error: The American Contro­ versy Over CreatiOÏ1 and Evolutlon by Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Edward J. Larson was published in 1985 222 Women's Autobiographies of the Nlne­ by Oxford University Press. p. ISBN 0-1950-3666-2. 15.95. teenth Century, edited bywilliam L. Andrews has been published by Indiana St. John the Church 1837- University Press, Bloomington, 1986. Evangelist 1987: of the 256 p. ISBN 0-2533-5260-6. � Pho�ographic Essay � est Cathollc Church in Indianapolls and Marion by William F. Stine­ Edward's University: � Centennial County S�. man and Jack W. Porter. 33.95. Avail­ Hlstory (1986) is now available from able from St. John the Evangelist St. Edward's University Press, Campus Church, 126 West Georgia Street, Indi­ Box 773, Austin, TX 78704. 37.45. anapolis, IN 46225. The Study of Spirituality, edited by Will Cheslyn Jones, Geoffrey Wainwright, l! Liberate? Questions About Lib­ eration Michael Novak and Edward Yarnold, S.J., a companion Theology, by volume to The Study of Liturgy, focus­ presents the hypothesis "that the lib­ es on the individual devotion of eral society, built around a capital­ istic that Christians. Over sixty writers repre­ society promotes discovery senting the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and entrepreneurship among the poor at Free Church and Orthodox traditions the base of society, will succeed more study the nature and form of individu­ quickly, more thoroughly, and in a al reverence. Oxford University more liberating fashion, than the so­ Press, 1986. 634 p. ISBN 0-19-504169- cialist societies so far conceived of O. 29.95. by liberation theologians." (pp. 8-

12 9). Paulist Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8091- Conzen believes that InvestIgation of 0385-0. their schools and inquiry into their associational life are among the spe­ Women and Religion in America: Volume cial needs for understanding the ex­ � The Twentieth Century, 1900-1968, perience of German-Americans.1 edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary S. Keller has been published German Catholics have been even more by Harper and Row, 1986. 448 p. ISBN 0-0606-6833-4. 23.99. overlooked by serious students. In spi te of its size or because of its variety, the German impact upon Ameri­ Recent Research can Catholicism has been passed over. Joseph White's survey of the "Histori­ Book, Bell, and Burgher: ography of Catholic Immigrants and Re­ German-American Parish Life ligion," reveals that research has concentrated primarily on the Irish For the past year I have been re­ and the New Immigrant groups which did searching the experience of parish not en ter the Un i ted Sta tes in large life for Roman Catholic German-Ameri­ numbers until the end of the nine­ cans living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin teenth century. Yet German Cathol ics between 1840 and 1920. I find that came early to Amer ica wi th an estab­ rattling off the title of my disserta­ lished tradition of religious practice tion often elicits a reaction of tha t was a clear al terna t ive to the stunned silence and a look of "How can evol v ing Ir ish vers ion. Colman Barry you waste time on such a narrow top­ studied the resulting clash between ic?" But those who recover the use of the Irish and Germans in The Catholic their tongues usually ask three ques­ Church and German Amer icans, bu t he on tions: "Why Germans?" , "Why par­ concentrated the ecclesiastical ishes?", and "Why Milwaukee?" Rarely, pol i t ics of a small group of h ier­ however, can I do justice to their archs; he had almost nothing to say queries. For the briefest introduc­ about the lay people who were affected tion to what I am doing prompts them by the conflict. Phil ip Gleason pro­ to relate personal anecdotes that con­ vided a masterful study of ethnic as­ fute the common belief that all Ameri­ similation and German-American lay can Catholics have grown up with iden­ Catholicism in his book, The Conserva­ tical experiences of monolithic church tive Reformers. However�he concen­ I ife. In the following paragraphs I trated on a national organization, the will give a brief response to the Central-Verein, not the particular lo­ three whys I am asked, mention some cus from which the components of the of the sources I have found helpful, organization received life. Jay Do­ and outline a few conclusions that lan's ground-breaking investigation of have thus far emerged from my re­ The Immigrant Church focused on three search. parishes -- one German, one Irish, and one mixed -- in antebellum New York Why Germans? Over one-f ifth of the City; his study of Germans in Phila­ nations's present citizenry claims to delphia describes the decline of a be of German descen t. However, Ru­ small minority group. However, a much dolph Vecoli, Kathleen Conzen, and different picture can be drawn for the Thomas Archdeacon are some of those parishes within the "German Triangle," who report that Germans have not re­ as Joseph White's dissertation sug­ ceived the scholarly attention focused gests.2 on other, less numerous ethnic groups. Moreover, James Bergquist's Why par ishes? Rom,an Cathol,ic par ishes discussion of urban German communities provide the SOCIo-economlC setting suggests how limited our knowledge is within which people express and actu­ of the German ne ighborhood, the one alize a host of human desires and in­ "ethnic district" that was common to terests. Parish membership is immedi­ nearly every American city. All these ately accessible to a great number and authors call for further research, but variety of people. The organizations

13 of the parish provide those people an from convents, available at the ar­ assortment of activities for fulfill­ chives of the School Sisters of Notre ing their own desires and contributing Dame in Milwaukee, have been particu­ to the des i res of others. Thus, par­ larly useful for tracing the changes ishes supply an ideal framework within in parish schools and religious life. which to pursue the agenda that Jon The archives and library of the Catho­ Butler recommends for "The Future of lic Central Union in Saint Louis have American Religious History."3 rare books and a microfilm collection that are crucial for studying German Why Milwaukee? By 1860 people of Ger­ Catholics in America. Hymnals, cate­ man heritage accounted for a majority chisms, and prayerbooks used by the of the city's population. This large immigrants and their descendents are contingent was replenished by later scattered in libraries throughout the immigrants throughout the nineteenth country. These seldom-used sources century. Hence, the city's German highlight the devotional religion of population easily maintained its cus­ the people. toms, mores, and language. The resul­ tant German community was so extensive Parish churches and rectories have that even the xenophobic hysteria af­ been particularly fruitful places for ter 1917 could not completely under­ research. Attics and cellars that es­ mine the city's Teutonic foundation. caped urban renewal or housekeepers' Because Germans joined the Ir ish and scrutiny have yielded such treasures Yankees in establishing Milwaukee, as 125-year-old minute books, eighth­ they were never excluded from posi­ grade examinations from the turn of tions of social or political emi­ the century, and ledgers that reveal nence. Milwaukee's Germans never com­ how expenses were met in good times prised a minority group crushed by and in bad. Sacramental records chart discrimination or excluded from access such subtle changes as increasingly to power. In addition, Milwaukee's delayed infant baptism and more fre­ Catholic bishops, until 1930 always quent exogamous marriages. Baptismal, men of German heritage, encouraged the marriage, and funeral registers at aspirations of their ethnic compatri­ each par ish, as well as announcement ots. As a resul t, the tens ions tha t books and annual handbooks, catalogue often strained the relationships be­ changes in practice and devotion. tween Germans and the Catholic hierar­ chy in other American dioceses were The sources I have studied reveal sig­ mitigated. Thus, because Milwaukee's nificant changes in the people, insti­ Germans helped bring the city into ex­ tutions, buildings, and devotions of istence, maintained their ethnic heri­ the German immigrant church, which I tage over time, and held influential state here in a brief, oversimplified, positions in church and society, the and often brusque fashion. The benign city is a good site for studying the pastor who shared the life of his nature of German Catholicism in Ameri­ flock became an isolated administra­ ca. tor; the innovative Sisters who worked with creative initiative became almost The archives of the archdiocese of obsequious; the v igorous lai ty became Milwaukee house many valuable arti­ like subservient children. Before the facts and records for the early his­ Civil War, German Catholics struggled tory of M i l waukee. The Sal zmann L i­ with ingenuity to establish their in­ brary and i ts Rare Book Room at the stitutions in the environment of a New si te of the seminary founded by the World; until the end of the nineteenth first bishop of Milwaukee contain ex­ century they strove to ensure the sta­ of those tens i ve collect ions of par ish h is to­ bility institutions; after 1900 bound their faith to an in­ r ies and Cathol ic newspapers of the they and centralized city. Newspapers and parish histories creasingly powerful ecclesiastical The rugged available at the library and archives authority. pioneers who prayed in log cabins in of the University of Notre Dame have 1840 built large brick structures that also furthered my work. House diaries brought pew and school desk under one

14 lantic william and Mary roof by 1890; successful burghers re­ problematigue," 42(1985): 167-183. placed most of these buildings with Quarterly more imposing stone and marble monu­ ments during the early twentieth cen­ Rev. James E. Grummer, S.J. tury. As German hymns were translated University of Notre Dame with American idioms, the devotions of the community became increasingly per­ University of Notre Dame Archives: Update sonal, private, and sentimental. Researchers who have not used the These Germans are part of the story of Notre Dame Archives in the past year how immigrants became what Americans or so will find many changes since have been, and are, and can one day their last visit. Some of the changes be. They have shown me that "Growing are in our physical facilities, others Up Catholic" has not been a monolithic in the way materials are being pro­ process but one that involves many cessed, and, of course, some are in special ethnic contributions. Indeed, new acquisitions. Since it has been the formation of the American Catholic several years since this Newsletter Church defies facile explanation and contained information on Notre Dame's general ization. I t demands recogni­ own repository, we thought it was time tion of the variety that makes the to bring readers up to date. American expression of Catholicism unique. Our most apparent change is in our looks. A major expansion took place NOTES last summer in our 6th floor facili­ ties in the Memorial Library. Much Vecoli, "European Americans: From Rudolph needed stack space was added, and some to Ethnics," in The Reinterpreta­ Immigrants rearrangement of offices took place. tion of American History, ed. by william What was our old Room is now a Cartwright and Richard Watson, (Washington, Reading DC: National Council for Social Studies, Reference Room. The file cabinets of 1973), pp. 81-112, especially pp. 94-95. calendars still remain, but we have Kathleen Neils Conzen, "The Writing of Ger­ added shelving to accommodate much of man-American History," Immigration History our printed material. This print Newsletter 12(1980), pp. 1-14. Thomas J. material may be located and then taken Archdeacon, "Problems and Possibil i ties of into the new Room. American Immigration and Ethnic History," Reading Manuscript materials can International Migration Review 19 (1985), also be identified from either hard or a pp. 112-134. James M. Bergquist, "German copy finding aids Communities in American Cities: An Interpre­ computerized data base of finding aids tation of the Nineteenth-Century Experi­ located in the Reference Room. ence," Journal of American Ethnic History Assistance is available to help re­ 4(1984), pp. 9-30. searchers use both the older tradi­ tional aids and our new 2 Joseph M. White, "Historiography of Cath­ finding compu­ olic Immigrants and Religion," Immigration ter resources. History Newsletter 14(1982), pp. 5-11. Col­ Once material is if not man J. Barry, The Catholic Church and German identified, Americans, (Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., located on open shelves in the Refer­ 1953). Philip Gleason, The Conservative Re­ ence Room, it will be paged and formers, (Notre Dame: University of Notre brought to the Reading Room. The P. The Immi­ Dame Press, 1968). Jay Dolan, Reading Room is now quite separate Church: New York's Irish and Germari grant from the activities of the Reference Catholics, 1815-1865, (Baltimore: Johns Hop­ areai thus readers should profit from kins university Press, 1975); "philadelphia a much and the German Catholic Community," in Immi­ quieter atmosphere. Special accommodations can be made for grants and Religion in Urban America, ed. by port­ Randall M. Miller and Thomas D. Marzik, able computers or typewriters brought (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, in by researchers. copying is still a 1977). Joseph M. White, "Religion and Com­ service provided by the staff. Ms. Cincinnati Germans, 1814-1870," munity: Sharon Sumpter is our primary refer­ ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1980. ence staffing assistant, and research be addressed to 3 Jon Butler, "The Future of American Reli­ inquiries may directly gious History: Prospectus, Agenda, Transat- her.

15 As noted above, computerized finding ity certainly exists, but it is still aids are now a reality for the Notre a ways in our future before we can Dame Archives. All new material is provide it as a service to our re­ processed using the computer. Identi­ searchers. fication of material, preliminary and final sorting and arrangement of en­ One final bit of information regarding tire collections, editing and indexing computer searchers. The University of individual finding aids, and stor­ Libraries currently is in the final age of information for reference re­ stages of installing a computer system trievals in a master data base are all that will put its catalog and various now standard parts of our processing administrative functions on-line. A techniques. This has been made possi­ terminal to access the Libraries' main ble by a variety of pieces of computer catalog will be available in the hardware and software we have pur­ Archives Reference Room. Thus re­ chased, and innumerable computer pro­ searchers will be able to search this �rams designed by Notre Dame's own catalog of the Libraries' published archivists to meet our own unique holdings, identifying material that needs and the research interests of might complement the primary materials our patrons. they are investigating in the Archives. For research in printed Researchers who feel most comfortable collections, such as parish histories with traditional finding aids should or Catholic newspapers, the companion­ not worry that they will be required ability of this arrangement should be to learn how to operate computers and especially beneficial. Or, for in­ master the lingo of this new high-tech stance, if one is working in the age. All the old finding aids still papers of the Sheed & Ward publishing work the same way, and if one wishes company, it might be useful to be able to shun the computer entirely it need to know how many of their titles are not intrude upon anyone's research contained in the Libraries' collec­ techniques. However, for those who tions. wish to take advantage of its capabil­ ities, we can now provide that oppor­ Mention of the Sheed & Ward Collection tunity. brings us to recent acquisitions, or recently processed material now avail­ In the Reference Room, research in­ able for scholarly use. certainly the quiries can be typed into a computer Sheed & Ward Collection deserves to be that will search through the finding highlighted. We count ourselves for­ aids for all the collections we have tunate, indeed, to be able to provide been able to enter, and provide on the this rich resource to our researchers. screen or on a paper a list of all the From the initial concern of Dr. Mary occurrences of that particular query. Jo Weaver, who made this acquisition For instance, if one is looking for possible, through the generosity of all the collections that contain sig­ Wilfrid Sheed acting as the literary nificant references or correspondence executor of his parents' estate, and from Msgr. John J. Egan, one needs finally by virtue of the meticulous only to type the query into the com­ processing provided by Dr. Wm. Kevin puter. The computer will then search Cawley of the Archives' staff, the through the indices it contains and Sheed & Ward collection is now being �llow the researcher to page through used by scholars visiting us from all the finding aids of the pertinent col­ across this country and Canada. Com­ lections, bringing up on the screen plementary material of office files the references it has found to Egan, from the Sheed & Ward publishing com­ Tohn J. pany located in New York city has also been provided by Universal Press Syn­ One word of caution here. Only the dicate (Kansas City) and Marigold finding aids we have produced in the Hunt. Archives are searchable, not the orig­ inal text of the documentation in the It may not be too widely known that we collections themselves. That capabil- serve as the official repository for

16 administrative agencies other than administrative changes now underway at the University of Notre Dame. This is Notre Dame will not be surprised to demonstrated in our interest in docu­ learn that we anticipate being much menting the history of the Catholic occupied with the processing of the press, of efforts to promote world Hesburgh papers in the coming months. peace, and of the nature and defini­ tion of religious life. We are the Processing papers, of course, also en­ designated repository for the National tails some special records. Our Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, graphic materials photographs, and for Commonweal magazine. We are architectural drawings, video tapes, also the designated repository for Pax audio tapes -- have benefited from new Christi, USA, and most recently have staffing expertise in the past several been chosen by the Center of Concern years, as well as computerized finding to act as their repository. We also aids. Father Hesburgh may be our most are the official repository for the photogenic and frequent subject in our Leadership Conference of Women Relig­ visual records, but we now take great ious, the National Federation of pride in the increased accessibility Priests' councils, and the Association we have been able to achieve to the of Chicago Priests. We serve relig­ faces, voices or graphic creations of ious communities, for instance as the the perhaps lesser known Catholics who repository for both the American Cen­ people the vast majority of our col­ tral Province and the Northeast Prov­ lections. ince of the Xaver ian Brothers, and in­ dividual religious, for instance Rev. In addition to assuming primary re­ Paul Boyle, CP, Rev. David Bowman, SJ. sponsibilty for our graphics collec­ While no longer collecting official tion as a whole, Mr. Charles Lamb has diocesan materials, we do collect the supervised the processing of the papers of individual bishops, for in­ graphics found in the Liturgical Arts stance Bishop Thomas Gumbleton and papers of Maurice Lavanoux, as well as Archbishop Mark McGrath. the extensive photograph collection of Francis Clark. These materials are Of interest to many researchers, we now nearly fully identified and should are certain, is the announcement that provide valuable visual documentation the processing of the papers of Msgr. of late nineteenth and twentieth cen­ Reynold Hillenbrand is nearing comple­ tury Catholic life. Persons wishing tion, and this material is rich in information on the Notre Dame Archives many areas, particularly for those re­ graphics' collections should write Mr. searchers familiar with our Christian Lamb directly. Family Movement material. Additional YCW material has been processed and Work is also underway to produce a incorporated into the material first "Guide to the Manuscript Collections received from CFM, YCW and YCS in the in the University of Notre Dame 1960s. Archives." While initial efforts to find outside funding to produce this The papers of Eugene Kennedy are pro­ Guide did not prove successful, we are cessed and available for research use. pushing ahead on our own. At this New indices have been produced for the point in time we believe we are about correspondence in the Liturgical Arts half way through our collections. Collection, as well as the microfilmed Once complete, this publication will papers of the Leopoldinen Mission be announceed as available to re­ Society. searchers and libraries. Size and cost have not yet been determined. We also are making significant headway in our own administrative processing. Dr. Wendy Clauson Schlereth Under the of Mr. Peter supervision University of Notre Dame Archives Lysy, all the administrative records of Rev. John J. Cavanaugh have been processed and are subject to computer searches. Anyone familiar with the

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