The Catholic Historical Review articles from April 2007

The Catholic Historical Review archives from April 2007

Church and crusade: Frederick II and Louis IX.
April 1, 2007... In the course of the thirteenth century, the crusade movement underwent significant changes. Its focus expanded beyond military expeditions against the Muslims as it came increasingly to be employed for political purposes and in defense of the...

The reception of Unigenitus in the Faculty of Theology at Louvain, 1713-1719.
April 1, 2007... This article focuses on the years immediately following the introduction of the bull Unigenitus (1713), which condemned 101 propositions extracted from Quesnel's Reflexions morales. At that time, ultramontanist principles were gaining more and...

"The status of women": two American Catholic women at the UN, 1947-1972.
April 1, 2007... From the late 1940's until the American bishops closed their United Nations Office in 1972, Catherine Schaefer and Alba Zizzamia, two American lay women, served as both National Catholic Welfare Conference UN Observers and Catholic...

Of missions and models: the Jesuit enterprise (1540-1773) reassessed in recent literature.
April 1, 2007... Titles in order of consideration: The Society of Jesus, 1548-1773. A catalogue of books by Jesuit authors and works relating to the Society of Jesus published between 1548, with the firstprinting of Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual...

The eighty-seventh annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.
April 1, 2007... Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Program The Committee on Program consisted of Constance Berman, University of Iowa; Frank Coppa, St. John's University, New York; Nicholas Creary, Ohio University; William Hudon, Bloomsburg State...

Christian Community in History.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Christian Community in History. Vol. 1: Historical Ecclesiology. By Roger Haight. (New York: Continuum. 2004. Pp. x, 438. $34.95.) The prior decade, but especially the last few years, has seen a short but rich shelf of books on ecclesiology...

When Science & Christianity Meet.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... When Science & Christianity Meet. Edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 357. $29.00.) More than twenty years ago, David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers, both of them...

Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600-1966.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Index librorum prohibitorum: 1600-1966. Edited by J. M. De Bujanda with the assistance of Marcella Richter. [Index des livres interdits, Volume XI.] (Montreal: Centre d'Etudes de la Renaissance, Universite de Sherbrooke, Mediaspaul; Geneva:...

Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument. By Robert S. Nelson. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. xx, 278, 11 color plates. $65.00.) This fascinating investigation of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul amasses a...

Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. By Evonne Levy. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2004. Pp. x, 353. $55.00.) The word "propaganda" summons up such a negative resonance that it could well turn a reader away from this book. That...

Dictionary of Basilian Biography: Lives of Members of the Congregation of Priests of Saint Basil from Its Origins in 1822 to 2002.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dictionary of Basilian Biography: Lives of Members of the Congregation of Priests of Saint Basil from Its Origins in 1822 to 2002. Second edition. Revised and augmented by P. Wallace Platt. (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto...

Constantine and the Christian Empire.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Constantine and the Christian Empire. By Charles Matson Odahl. (New York: Routledge. 2004. Pp. xviii, 400. $104.95.) In his work Constantine and the Christian Empire, Charles Odahl strives to present a biographical study of Constantine in a...

Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. By Claudia Rapp. [The Transformation of the Classical Heritage.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 346.) The European...

The New Cambridge Medieval History.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The New Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. I: C. 500-c. 700. Edited by Paul Fouracre. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 979. $180.00.) With the publication of Volume I, the New Cambridge Medieval History is now complete...

The Christian World of the Middle Ages.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Christian World of the Middle Ages. By Bernard Hamilton. (Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing. 2003. Pp. xxvii, 256. $29.95.) This book attempts to fill a gap in the knowledge of students--and teachers--whose training has...

A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image. By Barbara Baert. Translated from the Dutch by Lee Preedy. (Leiden: Brill. 2004. Pp. xxxiv, 527; 30 pages of color plates. $260.00.) Byzanz, der Westen, und das...

Landscapes of Monastic Foundation: The Establishment of Religious Houses in East Anglia, c. 650-1200.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Landscapes of Monastic Foundation: The Establishment of Religious Houses in East Anglia, c. 650-1200. By Tim Pestell. [Anglo-Saxon Studies, 5.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 280. $85.00.) This volume presents a...

Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents. Translated by Vera Morton with an interpretive essay by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. [Library of Medieval Women.] (Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. 2003. Pp. x, 203. $70.00.) This aptly titled...

Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries. By Valerie G. Spear. [Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, Vol. 24.] (Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer. 2005. Pp. xix, 245. $90.00.) Spear identifies more than two hundred abbesses...

Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600. By Nancy Bradley Warren. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. x, 264. $55.00.) I must preface my review of Women and God and Arms by stating...

The Medieval Crusade.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Medieval Crusade. Edited by Susan J. Ridyard. (Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, Inc. 2004. Pp. ix, 177.) The Medieval Crusade comprises ten papers presented at the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, April 2001, on the theme "Crusades...

Eglise et pouvoir dans la Peninsule Iberique. Les ordres militaires dans le royaume de Castille (1252-1369).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Eglise et pouvoir dans la Peninsule Iberique. Les ordres militaires dans le royaume de Castille (1252-1369). By Philippe Josserand. [Bibliotheque de la Casa de Velazquez, Volume 31.] (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. 2004. Pp. xxii, 912....

Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Aelred of Rievaulx: The Historical Works. Translated by Jane Patricia Freeland; edited, with an Introduction and Annotations, by Marsha L. Dutton. [Cistercian Fathers Series, Number 56.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp....

Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300. By Paul Binski. (New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 343; 80 colored and 210 black and white illustrations. $65.00.) This is an intensely serious and ambitious...

A Short History of Thomism.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... A Short History of Thomism. By Romanus Cessario. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 106. $1995 paperback.) Originally published in French as Le Thomisme et les Thomistes, Romanus Cessario's A Short...

Theologia Deutsch--Theologia Germanica. The Book of the Perfect Life.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Theologia Deutsch--Theologia Germanica. The Book of the Perfect Life. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Blamires. [Sacred Literature Series of the International Sacred Literature Trust.] (Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, a...

Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. By Karen Sullivan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 281. $35.00.) In Truth and the Heretic, Karen Sullivan sheds much light on the process of...

Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Heresy in Transition: Transforming Ideas of Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Ian Hunter, John Christian Laursen, and Cary J. Nederman. [Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.] Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company....

Alejandro VI y los Reyes Catolicos. Relaciones politico-eclesiasticas (1492-1503).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Alejandro VI y los Reyes Catolicos. Relaciones politico-eclesiasticas (1492-1503). By Alvaro Fernandez de Cordova Miralles. [Dissertationes, Series Theologica XVI.] (Rome: Edizioni Universita della Santa Croce. 2005. Pp. ii, 838; 10 maps, 2...

Miguel Servet: Obras completas.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Miguel Servet: Obras completas. Edited, introduction, and notes by Angel Alcala. Vol. I: Vida, muerte y obra. La lucha por la libertad de consciencia. Documentos. [Col. Larumbe: Clasicos Aragoneses 24; Historia y pensamiento] (Zaragoza: Prensas...

Dove non arriva la legge. Dottrine della censura nella prima eta moderna.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dove non arriva la legge. Dottrine della censura nella prima eta moderna. By Lucia Bianchin. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento: Monografie, 41.] (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 389. [euro]25.50 paperback.)...

The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture (1573-1580).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Mercurian Project: Forming Jesuit Culture (1573-1580). Edited by Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. [Biblioteca Instituti Historici Societatis Iesu, Volume 55; The Institute of Jesuit Sources, Series III: Original Studies Composed in English, No. 18.]...

Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Missionary Tropics: The Catholic Frontier in India (16th-17th Centuries). By Ines G. Zupanov. [History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.] (Ann Arbor:The University of Michigan Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 374. $75.00.) ...

Joannes della Faille, S.J.: Mathematics, Modesty and Missed Opportunities.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Joannes della Faille, S.J.: Mathematics, Modesty and Missed Opportunities. By Ad Meskens. [Institut Historique de Beige de Rome, Bibliotheque, LIII.] (Brussels: Institut Historique Belge de Rome. 2005. Pp. 177. [euro]36.00 paperback.) This...

Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600. By Helmut Puff. [The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society.] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 311. $24.00 paperback.) Helmut Puff's book, part of "The...

L'armonia contesa: identita ed educazione nell'Alsazia moderna.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... L'armonia contesa: identita ed educazione nell'Alsazia moderna. By Simona Negruzzo. (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2005. Pp. 396. [euro]29.50 paperback.) Its history makes Alsace an attractive laboratory for exploring some major...

Konfessionskampf und fremde Besatzung. Stadt und Hochstift Hildesheim im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges (ca. 1580-1660).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Konfessionskampf und fremde Besatzung. Stadt und Hochstift Hildesheim im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des Dreissigjahrigen Krieges (ca. 1580-1660). By Christian Plath. [Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte, 147.] (Munster:...

Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Souls in Dispute: Converso Identities in Iberia and the Jewish Diaspora, 1580-1700. By David L. Graizbord. [Jewish Culture and Contexts.] (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 263. $47.50.) David Graizbord's book...

Correspondance du Nonce en France: Gasparo Silingardi, Eveque de Modene (1599-1601).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Correspondance du Nonce en France: Gasparo Silingardi, Eveque de Modene (1599-1601). Edited by Bertrand Haan. [Acta Nuntiaturae Gallicae, 17.] (Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome and Universite Pontificale Gregorienne. 2002. Pp. xxxvii, 598....

Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Redefining Female Religious Life: French Ursulines and English Ladies in Seventeenth-Century Catholicism. By Laurence Lux-Sterritt. [Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2005. Pp. viii, 236....

Vincent de Paul: The Trailblazer.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Vincent de Paul: The Trailblazer. By Bernard Pujo. Translated by Gertrud Graubart Champe. (Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 329. $40.00.) For more than three centuries, most biographies of Vincent de...

John Baptist de la Salle: The Spirituality of Christian Education.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... John Baptist de la Salle: The Spirituality of Christian Education. Edited by Carl Koch, Jeffrey Calligan, FSC, and Jeffrey Gros, FSC. [The Classics Western Spirituality.] (New York and Mahway, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 266....

Treatise on Monastic Studies, 1691.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Treatise on Monastic Studies, 1691. By Dom Jean Mabillon. Translated with an introduction by John Paul McDonald. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 2004. Pp. xxii, 340. $45.00 paperback.) Into the arena of large...

The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture. By Louis Dupre. (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 397. $45.00.) Reminiscent of his previous work, Passage to Modernity: An Essay in the...

Le secolarizzazioni nel Sacro Romano Impero e negli antichi stati italiani: premesse, confronti, conseguenze / Sakularisationsprozesse im Alten Reich und in Italien: Voraussetzungen, Vergleiche, Folgen.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le secolarizzazioni nel Sacro Romano Impero e negli antichi stati italiani: premesse, confronti, conseguenze / Sakularisationsprozesse im Alten Reich und in Italien: Voraussetzungen, Vergleiche, Folgen. Edited by Claudio Donati and Helmut...

Religion y sociedad en Espana (siglos XIX y XX).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Religion y sociedad en Espana (siglos XIX y XX). Edited by Paul Aubert. [Colleccion de la Casa de Velazquez, Volume 77.] (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. 2002. Pp. xiv, 292. [euro]45 paperback.) The essays contained in this volume were first...

Erzbischof Johannes Dyba: "Unverschamt katholisch".(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Erzbischof Johannes Dyba. "Unverschamt katholisch". Edited by Gotthard Klein and Monica Sinderhauf. [Quaestiones NON Disputatae, Band VI.] (Siegburg: Verlag Franz Schmitt. 2002. Pp. 592.) Archbishop Johannes Dyba (1929-2000) was an...

The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965. By Mark Edward Ruff. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 284. $49.95.) The Wayward Flock provides new insight into German...

Der Franzosische Exilklerus im Furstbistum Munster (1794-1802).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Der Franzosische Exilklerus im Furstbistum Munster (1794-1802). By Bernward Kroger. [Veroffentwicklungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz, Abteilung fur Abendlandische Religionsgeschichte, Band 203.] (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von...

Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine. By Suzanne K. Kaufman. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2005. Pp. viii, 255. $34.95.) Suzanne Kaufman's Consuming Visions challenges two ways of looking at the history of...

Elisabeth Leseur: Selected Writings.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Elisabeth Leseur: Selected Writings. Edited, translated, and introduced by Janet K. Ruffing, RSM. [The Classics of Western Spirituality.] (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 319. $27.95 paperback.) This volume...

The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Tragic Tale of Claire Ferchaud and the Great War. By Raymond Jonas. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 217. $21.95 paperback.) In March 1917, at the height of World War I, Claire Ferchaud, a peasant girl from the...

Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Jacques and Raissa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven. By Jean-Luc Barre. Translated by Bernard E. Doering. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 496. $50.00.) I much prefer autobiographies over biographies, and, in...

The Diocese of Meath Under Bishop John Cantwell, 1830-1866.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Diocese of Meath Under Bishop John Cantwell, 1830-1866. By Paul Connell. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 285. $50.00.) One of the more useful historical fruits from the extensive work done on the Irish Catholic Church in the...

Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto: An Epitaph for the Unremembered.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto. An Epitaph for the Unremembered. By Peter F. Dembowski. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 160. $18.00.) In the writings about the Warsaw Ghetto, little is made of the some...

Church and State in Late Imperial Russia. Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government (1861-1914).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Church and State in Late Imperial Russia. Critics of the Synodal System of Church Government (1861-1914). [Minnesota Mediterranean and East European Monographs, No. 13.] By John D. Basil. (Minneapolis: Modern Greek Studies, University of...

Dall'Oronte al Tevere: Scritti in onore del cardinale Ignace Moussa I Daoud per il cinquantesimo di sacerdozio.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dall'Oronte al Tevere. Scritti in onore del cardinale Ignace Moussa I Daoud per il cinquantesimo di sacerdozio. Edited by Gianpaolo Rigotti. [Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali: Edizioni >.] (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Edizioni...

"Because He Was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... "Because He Was a German!" Cardinal Bea and the Origins of Roman Catholic Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement. By Jerome-Michael Vereb, C.P. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2006. Pp. xxvii, 332. $35.00.) ...

Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. By Kent G. Lightfoot. (Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 338. $55.00 clothbound; $24.95 paperback.) Recently,...

Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio from Colonial Origins to the Present.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio from Colonial Origins to the Present. By Timothy Matovina. [Lived Religions Series.] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. xviii, 232. $60.00 hardcover, $22.95...

The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645-1646.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645-1646. By Timothy B. Riordan. (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society. 2004. Pp. xii, 388. $35.00.) Timothy Riordan, chief archaeologist at historic St. Mary's City, has written...

Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem. By Craig D. Atwood. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 283.) In Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem, Craig Atwood...

North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy. Edited by Wilbert R. Shenk. [Studies in the History of Christian Missions.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xiv, 349. $45.00...

Edward Barron, 1801-1854: Unsung Hero of the Mission to Africa.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Edward Barron, 1801-1854: Unsung Hero of the Mission to Africa. By Sean P. Farragher, CSSp. (Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Blackrock College. 2004. Pp. xii. 226. [euro]20.00 paperback.) Father Farragher's biography of Edward Barron, the leader of...

Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865-1900. By Julius H. Bailey. [The History of African-American Religions Series.] (Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. xii, 152. $59.95.) The...

Creative Fidelity: American Catholic Intellectual Traditions.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Creative Fidelity: American Catholic Intellectual Traditions. Edited by R. Scott Appleby, Patricia Byrne, C.S.J., and William L. Portier. [American Catholic Identities: A Documentary History.] (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books. 2004. Pp....

American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924-1936.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... American Catholics and the Mexican Revolution, 1924-1936. By Matthew A. Redinger. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 260. $45.00 clothbound; $22.00 paperback.) This book provides a detailed account of the...

Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994).(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Crusader in the Cold War: A Biography of Fr. John F. Cronin, S.S. (1908-1994). By John T. Donovan. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2005. Pp. xiv, 245. $67.95.) John T. Donovan has written a wide-ranging biography of one of the...

A Vision, A Voice, A Presence: A History of the First Forty Years of the Michigan Catholic Conference.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... A Vision, A Voice, A Presence: A History of the First Forty Years of the Michigan Catholic Conference. By Maxine Kollasch, I.H.M.. (Sterling Heights, Michigan: Lesnau Printing Company for the Michigan Catholic Conference. 2005. Pp. 105.) ...

Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956. By R. Bentley Anderson, S.J. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 292. $45.00.) In Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism, 1947-1956,...

Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800. Edited by Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff. (New York and London: Routledge. 2003. Pp. xxii, 317. $24.95 paperback.) Colonial Saints is an outstanding compilation of fourteen...

Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Visions of Paradise: Primordial Titles and Mesoamerican History in Cuernavaca. By Robert Haskett. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 420. $49.95.) The Catholic conversion of the native peoples of Mexico remains one of the...

Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego: The Historical Evidence. By Eduardo Chavez. Translated from the Spanish by Carmen Travino and Veronica Montano. [Celebrating Faith: Explorations in Latino Spirituality and Theology.] (Lanham,...

The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico. By Stafford Poole, C.M. (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2006. Pp. xvi, 318. $65.00.) Stafford Poole's new book makes a sequel to his 1995 Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and...

Aufbau und Intensivierung kirchlicher Verwaltung im Erzbistum Koln im 17. Jahrhundert: An Beispielen aus der Amtszeit des kolner Generalvikars Paul von Aussem.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hulser, Tina. Aufbau und Intensivierung kirchlicher Verwaltung im Erzbistum Koln im 17. Jahrhundert: An Beispielen aus der Amtszeit des kolner Generalvikars Paul von Aussem. [Beitrage zur Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichte, 16.] (Frankfurt: Peter...

Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet for the New Millennium.(BRIEF NOTICES)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Pelton, Robert, C.S.C. (Ed.) Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet for the New Millennium. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press. Distributed by the University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xxii, 89. $12.00 paperback.) This volume...

Notes and comments.
April 1, 2007... Anniversaries and Exhibitions On December 13, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI marked the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Publishing House, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana. While Sixtus V established the Vatican Printing Press...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2007... General and Miscellaneous I sinodi fra storia e teologia. Giuseppe Ruggieri. Cristianesimo nella Storia, XXVII (May, 2006), 365-392. Against Forgetting: Memory, History, Vatican II. Stephen Schloesser, S.J. Theological Studies, 67...

Other books received.(Bibliography)
April 1, 2007... Amarante, Alfonso V., Antonio Donato, Adam Owczarski (Eds.). Bibliografia Gerardina (1811-2005). (Materdomini: Editrice San Gerardo. 2006. Pp. 228. Paperback.) A bibliography of St. Gerardo Maiella (1726-1755). Aubert, R. (Ed.)....