COURIER-JOURNAL Wednesday, September 30.1981 20

Announces \A Series Surveying the History Of Our Church and the People Who Shaped It

During this school year, from Oct. T until the last weekin May. the Seminary. Msgr. Connelly, who holds a doctorate in Church history from Courier-Journal will be. publishing a 34-part.'series. "Our "Catholic the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, was vice rector for Heritage." a'survey of the history of the Catholi'c Church and of the theology at St. Charles Seminary (1968-71) and chairman of the people who helped shape it. Below is a week-by-week schedule outlining Liturgical Committee for the of St. John Neumann. the series and the list of .men and women who w4H be profiled. Father Thomas McManus is the other series author, also an alumnus , Next >ear. '£he'Courier Journal plans to continue this series with the of the Pontifical Gregorian University. history of the Catholic'Church in the New World in general and in the i Mtt-ed States in particular. • - ', Noted Philadelphia artist Robert ,F. McGovern will illustrate the weekly series. McGovern is noted for his work in pen and ink. wood cuts.' We'believe that "Our Catholic Heritage" will be ideal .for use as an aid sculpture, watercolors, and oil and canvas. He teaches drawing, design in religious" instruction in the classroom, in the-family or for personal and anatomy at Philadelphia College of Art and is co-chairman of the enlightenment. . - • • . - . • foundation department. *» One author of the-series will be Msur. James F.- Connelly, professor of We at The Courier-Journal are happy to make this very worthwhile Church history at St.-Charles Borromeo Seminary since 197Q and the series available to our readers. author of histories'-of the-Archdiocese of Philadelphia and of St. Charles

Schedule of:

1) Survey Articles 2) Profile Articles

The Establishment of the Church 1) Reform in the Church 1) The Church and the Age of Reason St. Peter 2» St. Gregory VII 2) St. and St. The Nature and Spread of the Church _ 1) The Church at Worship 1) Who Can Crush the Church? St. Paul 2) The Customs of Christmas 2) St. John Marie Vianney The Bl

The Conversion of the Nations 1) Christianity: A Cracked Vase w 1) The Church and the Holocaust 21 Pope St ^Gregory the Great' 2) St. Ignatius of Loyola- 2) Blessed 1) The Division of the Church 1) The Catholic Reformation 1) The Church in the Modern World 2) Pope St. Nicholas the Great 2) St. Teresa of Avila 2) Pope John XXIA and Pope Paul VI 1) The Church Today 2^ Pope John Paul IJ. and. Mother. Teresa of Calcutta