{"title":"The Art of the \"Global Church\": Around the World with Liturgical Arts","authors":"C. Osborne","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The U.S. journal Liturgical Arts offered readers a glimpse into the art and architecture of the \"global church\" during the 1950s, when the journal's editor Maurice Lavanoux traveled widely in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Lavanoux's long relationships with missionaries significantly shaped the journal's presentation of how to inculturate art and architecture. Conflicting values, however, led the journal to inconsistent judgments. At times it leaned towards an adaptationist approach; at others, it moved towards interpreting inculturation as modernizing. When it came to art, however, Lavanoux wholly favored including art with nonwhite biblical figures in both mission and Western churches. This essay argues that Liturgical Arts is a valuable source for insight into Euro-American views on inculturation immediately prior to Vatican II and the advance of liberation theology.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132312207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanae Vitae, Natural Family Planning, and U.S. Catholic Identity: The Founding of the Couple to Couple League","authors":"K. Dugan","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The origins of the Couple to Couple League (CCL) in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati date to 1972 when John and Sheila Kippley moved to Ohio and brought with them the newly- founded CCL, an organization committed to teaching and promoting Natural Family Planning. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic interviews with the Kippleys, this article posits that CCL's history is part of a twentieth-century intra-Catholic debate over what ought to define Catholic identity in the United States. The Kippleys founded CCL as a part of their commitment to being pro-Humanae Vitae Catholics. They largely defined their Catholicism by adherence to this papal teaching. This article argues that CCL's origins in Cincinnati illuminate how definitions of Catholic identity were reworked in the 1970s through Humanae Vitae's interpretations and relationships between the laity and hierarchy.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126236630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Without slaves and without assassins\": Antebellum Cincinnati, Transnational Jesuits, and the Challenges of Race and Slavery","authors":"Kelly L Schmidt","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Though established in Ohio, a free state, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati was immersed in slavery through its origins, clergy, religious orders, schools, and lay Catholics. This article explores the archdiocese's ties to slavery through its relationship with the Jesuits who assumed leadership of the diocesan institution of higher education, the Athenaeum, and renamed it St. Xavier College. It examines how the college's administrators sustained the school through direct and financial ties to slavery. Operating in a city beset by controversy—where nativism, debates over slavery and sectionalism, and anti-Catholicism intersected, Jesuits from Europe and the U.S., shaped by international, national, and local influences, responded to the region's growing racial and sectional tensions. Both individually and collectively, they harbored competing allegiances and opinions that were largely withheld from public discourse to prevent discord. St. Xavier College's Jesuits made choices cautiously and strategically to navigate regional and global contexts of their educational ministry.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121161833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public and Parochial: How the Sisters of the Precious Blood Shaped State-Funded Education in Ohio","authors":"M. Hess","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Sisters of the Precious Blood came to West Central and Northwestern Ohio to minister to immigrant Catholics who began arriving by the 1830s. Many communities were predominately German Catholic, and religious sisters were considered best equipped to teach. As villages formed their own schools, many were attached to Catholic parishes, including some that benefited from common school funds. Consequently, many Sisters of the Precious Blood served as teachers in publicly-funded educational institutions. When schools expanded and merged in the early twentieth century, some Precious Blood Sisters found themselves in more diverse communities, with an increasing number of non-Catholics in the classroom. Some questioned the employment of sisters in state-supported schools, and court cases ensued. A test case against the school board in Fort Recovery required the Precious Blood Sisters' testimony. Although the court decided against the school board and required modification of the sisters' presence, they continued teaching in Ohio's public schools until the mid-1990s.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126170589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Welfare to Worship: The Sisters of Charity, the Santa Maria Institute, and the Founding of Cincinnati's Italian Parishes","authors":"M. Connolly","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While Irish and Germans dominated Cincinnati's foreign-born population, an Italian minority formed during the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1890 the city's first Italian national parish, Sacro Cuore di Gesù was established, but not all Italians joined. Fearing the loss of Italian immigrants to Protestant evangelizers, Cincinnati Archbishop William Henry Elder asked the Sisters of Charity to establish a mission for serving Italians' spiritual and material needs. In response, two Italianborn Sisters of Charity, Sisters Blandina and Justina Segale, organized the Santa Maria Institute, a Catholic settlement house and social service center. As an extension of Santa Maria Institute, two new welfare centers (which became parishes) were formed in the 1920s: Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Walnut Hills and San Antonio di Padova in Fairmount. Through Santa Maria Institute and the city's three Italian parishes, the growing community of Italian immigrants was evangelized and received material aid, forging a close relationship between the Catholic faith and the Italians' new country.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121576960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monsignor Martin T. Gilligan's Diplomatic Mission and the Rise of Communism in China, 1946–1953","authors":"B. Wong","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Monsignor Martin T. Gilligan, a member of the Holy See's diplomatic corps from Cincinnati, Ohio, was appointed secretary to China's first Papal Internuncio, Archbishop Antonio Riberi, when bilateral diplomatic relations were established between Rome and the Chinese Nationalist (Guomindang) government. Gilligan's correspondence from 1946 to 1953 records the government's successive defeats in the Chinese civil war, communism's growing strength, and the suffering of native Chinese and missionary clergy and religious. The Internuncio sent Gilligan to accompany the retreating Nationalist government and assist exiled clergy and religious entering Hong Kong. By 1952, the need to assist refugees declined, prompting a discernment that ultimately led Gilligan to resign from the Holy See's diplomatic service and return to the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122469587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Revolution in Cincinnati: Jewish-Catholic Relations in the Era of Vatican II","authors":"Michael Skaggs","doi":"10.1353/cht.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cht.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the common narrative of Catholic-Jewish relations in the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) is considered the beginning of an era of mutual respect. But Nostra Aetate was not of equal importance everywhere. The example of Cincinnati, Ohio, demonstrates how Catholics and Jews had largely set their religious differences aside to focus on joint contributions to civic life. While Catholics and Jews differed sharply on the relationship between state and religion and the First Amendment's correct interpretation, they found common cause to work together in addressing centuries-old discrimination against African Americans. This case study of Jewish-Catholic relations shows that local histories, local problems, and local solutions can tell historians more about interfaith relations than global theological declarations.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121114389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Catholic Church in the Twentieth-Century American West: Spatial Realities, Demographic Growth, and Roman Observations","authors":"S. Avella","doi":"10.1353/CHT.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CHT.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The population of the American West—defined here as the states west of the Missouri River, including Alaska and Hawaii—grew dramatically during the twentieth century. Lured by product demand, tourism, improved transportation, and heavy federal government investment, Americans flocked to these states, especially California and Texas. This demographic surge led to an increase in the numbers of Catholics in the West and an explosion of new dioceses. As the West grew, the Vatican took notice. Correspondence between authorities in Rome and U.S. bishops reflect Western Catholicism's growth and transnational identity but also evidence the particular challenges of Catholic expansion. This essay maps the West's dramatic growth and Rome's response, bringing to Western historians' attention the significance of the region's Catholic presence and providing a lens for better understanding the American West's social and cultural experience.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131899599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexican Priests and Migrant Ministry in the Midwest, 1953–1961","authors":"D. Kanter","doi":"10.1353/CHT.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/CHT.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Mexico's Catholic hierarchy partnered with U.S. bishops in sending Mexican priests to minister to braceros (short-term Mexican contract workers) who relocated during summers to the Midwest, especially Ohio and Michigan, to work in agriculture. Based on recently-uncovered letters, this essay concentrates on the experience of these bracero-misioneros. In ministering to Spanish-speaking migrants from both Mexico and the U.S., the priests usually approved of those from Mexico while questioning the religiosity of U.S.-based Mexican migrants. The priests' seasonal visits over nine summers (1953–1961) strengthened migrant ministry and Spanish-speaking apostolates as diocesan clergy and laypeople grew familiar with the migrants' needs.","PeriodicalId":388614,"journal":{"name":"U.S. Catholic Historian","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128295523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}