GATHERED FRAGMENTS A Publication of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania • Vol. XXV, Fall 2015 Gathered Fragments September 2015.indd 1 10/31/2015 5:48:45 PM Table of Contents • Vol. XXV • Fall 2015 Pages Submission Guidelines...........................................................................................................................................2 Homily, 75th Anniversary Mass of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, May 17, 2015........................................................................................................3 The Soul in Stained Glass: Nick Parrendo..............................................................................................................6 A Woman, A Mission, A Commitment: Sister M. Ferdinand Clark and Urban Renewal.......................................11 Strolling Through Time: A Walking Tour of the Baden Campus of the Sisters of St. Joseph..................................18 Captain Michael McGuire Memorial Park Dedicated in Loretto, PA....................................................................19 Gannon, Guilfoyle, and Walsh: Shared Education and Catholic Higher Learning Objectives in Western Pennsylvania and Beyond, 1873-1957..................................................................................................................20 Out of State But Not Out of Mind......................................................................................................................32 The Pennsylvania Passionist Who Became Chinese: Fr. Basil Bauer, C.P. ..............................................................35 The Five Farina Brothers: Priests of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1928-1994...........................................................55 Reporting on Dorothy Day and the Church: Past, Present, and Future..................................................................61 The Many Missions of Father Richard F. Wersing, C.S.Sp.....................................................................................62 Daily Life at the Pontifical North American College..............................................................................................69 Discovering a Catalonian Perspective on Miquel Domènech i Veciana, Second Bishop of Pittsburgh and First Bishop of Allegheny..............................................................................................................................................73 Africa Comes to Western Pennsylvania: The White Fathers’ Seminary in Venango County...................................77 The See of Allegheny.............................................................................................................................................82 The Pittsburgh Mass Mob.....................................................................................................................................83 Our Authors.........................................................................................................................................................87 News from The Catholic Historical Society..........................................................................................................88 Drink with the Saints...........................................................................................................................................93 How to Write a Catholic Parish or Institutional History.......................................................................................93 Book Reviews, Articles & Other Media................................................................................................................94 1 Gathered Fragments September 2015.indd 2 10/31/2015 5:48:45 PM Submission Guidelines The Catholic Historical Society The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania solicits and of Western Pennsylvania welcomes items for Gathered Fragments addressing the culture and history of Catholicism in Western Pennsylvania. 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Crawford Membership Information (Emeritus) Gathered Fragments is published once a year by The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Diocese of Pittsburgh, 2900 Noblestown Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15202-4227. Rates for Rev. James W. Garvey subscriptions are currently: $100 for sustaining members, $35 for (Emeritus) institutional members, $35 for individual members, and $15 for religious order men and religious order weomen. The Society also welcomes donations to complete research, as well as to support publishing and preservation projects in local Church history. © 2015 by The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 2 Gathered Fragments September 2015.indd 3 10/31/2015 5:48:45 PM Homily 75 thAnniversary Mass of The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh May 17, 2015 ___________________________ Rev. James W. Garvey Good Afternoon. My name is Father Jim Garvey, and along with In the very earliest days of this nation, Western Pennsylvania was the principal celebrant today, Bishop William Winter, D.D. (retired), really rough and tumble. This was the frontier. There were many and the concelebrating priests, I am taking part in this Eucharistic arguments about whether Pittsburgh was part of the Virginia Liturgy to mark the 75th Anniversary (May 17, 2015) of the Territory, or Penn’s Woods, Pennsylvania. founding of THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF No question about it, Pittsburgh was the jumping off point for . I am pleased to see so many of WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA those who were traveling west by way of the Ohio River, and the you here today to join us in marking this special occasion. Mississippi — including the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804- In today’s Gospel (John 17: 11b - 19), the Evangelist John recalls 1806) which was not the first, or the last to cross the interior of the for us that Jesus came to save us from our sins. Jesus invites us United States in search of the western boundaries of this continent to become one with Him as he is one with the Father. We are at the Pacific Ocean. reminded that Jesus chose to send us, his followers, into the world, After the Revolutionary War was concluded and the Church began so that we might bring His light and His love to people who are to grow in this new nation, Pittsburgh was part of the Diocese of hungering for the truth. Jesus consecrates us in truth as he sends us forth to Christianize the world in His name. For some 2,000 years, the Christian community has engaged in missionary outreach spreading the Good News of the Gospel — spreading the truth that God is our Father, Jesus is our Savior, and the Holy Spirit accompanies us on our pilgrimage through life until we cross over the threshold of death, and are united with Christ in the truth of his Kingdom which never ends. The truths of our faith are found in the tradition of the Church, just as they are inscribed and enshrined in the Scriptures and have been proclaimed for millennia. The “truth” of Jesus’s saving Word in Scripture is a record of many of the extraordinary things he said and did during His time on this earth. Also part of that record are the Epistles of Paul, James, John, and the Acts of the Apostles. The faith community grew reflecting on the Word of God in the Scriptures, and was nourished by Jesus’s saving actions in the Sacraments. We appreciate and derive much benefit from reading about and studying the events that befell that first Christian community in the Acts of the Apostles. We recognize how important it is to chronicle the “history” of what