The Catholic Historical Review articles from October 2005

The Catholic Historical Review archives from October 2005

The theory and practice of just war in the late-medieval crown of Aragon.
October 1, 2005... In the post-modern world that we inhabit, war, it seems, still lives in the Middle Ages. Leaders of the free world have proclaimed--almost preached--a crusade against international terrorism and, in response, radical Islamist leaders have...

"Heretical plants of Irish growth": catholic critics of mathewite temperance.
October 1, 2005... In mid-November, 1843, Thomas Chisholm Anstey sat in his London law office, preparing a lengthy, anxious affidavit for the Prefect of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome. (1) Anstey's concerns centered on the accomplishments of the...

The diplomatic missions of bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M.
October 1, 2005... When the wars of independence swept over Central and South America in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, they left in their wake a great deal of confusion in both the political and religious spheres. The situation was particularly...

Northwest Indian evangelization by European Jesuits, 1841-1909.
October 1, 2005... "All of my life," wrote the Jesuit Nicole Point, "I have felt my heart throb at the very sound of the word, 'America.'" The young Frenchman who penned those words while en route to the United States in 1835 voiced a sentiment shared by many...

A "final disposition ... one way or another": the real end of the first Curran affair.(Father Charles E. Curran)
October 1, 2005... In 2003, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) opened its June meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, the clergy sexual abuse scandal was obviously at the top of the list of continuing concerns. The President of the Conference,...

Reformist currents in the Spanish-American councils of the eighteenth century.
October 1, 2005... In the late eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Spanish America found itself torn between two ideological viewpoints: whether to maintain traditional forms of worship and discipline, or to accept the innovations favored by an Enlightened...

Holy man of the Abruzzi and the limitations of Papal power.(Celestino V (Pietro Del Morrone) 1294: Il Papa Angelico)(Book review)
October 1, 2005... Celestino V (Pietro Del Morrone) 1294: Il Papa Angelico. By Peter Herde, edited by Quirino Salomone, translated by Anna Maria Voci. (L'Aquila: Edizioni Celestiniane. 2004. Pp. vii, 373, with color photographs 16 pp.) The translator, Anna...

The Conciliarist Tradition. Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Conciliarist Tradition. Constitutionalism in the Catholic Church 1300-1870. By Francis Oakley. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 298. $95.00.) In 1969 a brilliant young medievalist published a short book very much in...

High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. By Pauline Johnstone. (Leeds, UK: Maney, 2002. Pp. ix, 176; 32 color plates. $119.00 clothbound; $59.00 paperback.) ...

The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638. By Theodore Dwight Bozeman. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. (Chapel Hill and...

Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. By Mitja Velikonja. Translated by Rang'ichi Ng'inja. [Eastern European Studies, Number 20.] (College Station: Texas A & M University Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 365. $45.00.) ...

Becoming Human. A Story of Transformation through Conflict and Healing.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Becoming Human. A Story of Transformation through Conflict and Healing. By Godelieve Prove. (Delft, Netherlands: Eburon Publishers. Distributed by The University of Chicago Press. 2004. Pp. 254. $28.00 paperback.) Becoming Human is not so...

Episcopus et plebs: L'eveque et la communaute ecclesiale dans les conciles africains (345-525).(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Episcopus et plebs: L'eveque et la communaute ecclesiale dans les conciles africains (345-525). By Jean-Anatole Sabw Kanyang. [Publications Universitaires Europeennes, Series XXIII: Theology Vol. 701.] (Bern: Peter Lang. 2000. Pp. xiv, 396; 2...

La Bithynie au Moyen Age.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... La Bithynie au Moyen Age. Edited by Bernard Geyer and Jacques Lefort. [Realites Byzantines, Volume 9.] (Paris: Lethielleux. 2003. Pp. 566. [euro]38.00.) Regional studies are always welcome, particularly when the volume is a collaborative...

The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Year 1000: Religious and Social Response to the Turning of the First Millennium. Edited by Michael Frassetto. (New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 278. $59.95). Most of these studies illustrate the position Edward Peters terms "the weak...

Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325. By Augustine Thompson, O.P. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 502.) Augustine Thompson might not dissent from the proposition that the...

Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform. Selected, translated, and with an Introduction by Constance H. Berman. [TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages): Documents of Practice...

Power Over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law. By Charles J. Reid, Jr. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xi, 335. $35.00 paperback.) At its core...

Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo [Jimenez de Rada] and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo [Jimenez de Rada] and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain. By Lucy K. Pick. [History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.] (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004....

Die Register Innocenz' III. 9, Band: 9. Pontifikatsjahr 1206/1207.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... Die Register Innocenz' III. 9, Band: 9. Pontifikatsjahr 1206/1207. Texte und Indices. Edited by Andrea Sommerlechner, together with Othmar Hageneder, Christoph Egger, Rainer Murauer, and Herwig Weigl. [Publikationen des Historischen Instituts...

Carmel in Britain: Studies on the Early History of the Carmelite Order.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Carmel in Britain: Studies on the Early History of the Carmelite Order. Volume III: The Hermits from Mount Carmel. By Richard Copsey, O.Carm. (Faversham, Kent, England: Saint Albert's Press, and Rome: Edizioni Carmelitane. 2004. Pp. xii, 513....

Dominican Pentient Women.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Dominican Pentient Women. Edited, translated, and introduced by Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner, with contributions by Daniel E. Bornstein and E. Ann Matter. (New York and Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 316. $26.95 paperback.) ...

Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Therines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Therines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians. By William Chester Jordan. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 154. $29.95.) In this volume...

In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... In the Shadow of the Virgin: Inquisitors, Friars, and Conversos in Guadalupe, Spain. By Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau. (Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2002. Pp. xi, 280. $39.50.) The study of the conversos (converted Jews and their...

Un Formulari i un registre del bisbe de Valencia En Jaume d'Arago (segle XIV).(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Un Formulari i un registre del bisbe de Valencia En Jaume d'Arago (segle XIV). By M. Milagros Carcel Orti. [Fonts historiques valencianes, 17.] (Valencia: Universitat. 2005. Pp. 439. Paperback.) While less fully documented than those of...

Ordini religiosi e societa politica in Italia e Germania nei secoli XIV e XV.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ordini religiosi e societa politica in Italia e Germania nei secoli XIV e XV. Edited by Giorgio Chittolini e Kaspar Elm. Atti della XL Settimana di studio dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, 8-12 settembre 1997, Trento. [Annali...

Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Latin Sermon Collections from Later Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif. By Siegfried Wenzel. [Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 713. $170.00.) This...

Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Church, Religion and Society in Early Modern Italy. By Christopher F. Black. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. xxiii, 315. $85.00 clothbound; $29.95 paperback.) As the author of this book implies in his preface, it can well be read...

Pelerinages et miracles a Guadalupe au XVIe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Pelerinages et miracles a Guadalupe au XVIe siecle. By Francoise Cremoux. [Bibliotheque de la Casa de Velazquez, Vol. 17.] (Madrid: Casa de Velazquez. 2001. Pp. viii, 260. [euro]27,04.) In Pelerinages et miracles a Guadalupe au XVIe siecle,...

Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge, 1502 to 1649.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Lady Margaret Beaufort and her Professors of Divinity at Cambridge, 1502 to 1649. By Patrick Collinson, Richard Rex, and Graham Stanton. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. vi, 98. $15.99 paperback.) This sprightly little...

Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice. By Patricia Meilman. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 260, 8 colored plates. $75.00.) Of the many catastrophes to have befallen works of Italian Renaissance art, among...

Year by Year with the Early Jesuits (1537-1556): Selections from the Chronicon of Juan de Polanco, S.J.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Year by Year with the Early Jesuits (1537-1556): Selections from the Chronicon of Juan de Polanco, S.J. Translated and annotated by John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. [Jesuit Primary Sources in English Translation, Series 1, No. 21.] (St. Louis: The...

A Paradise Inhabited by Devils. The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... A Paradise Inhabited by Devils. The Jesuits' Civilizing Mission in Early Modern Naples. By Jennifer D. Selwyn. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Co., and Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Jesu. 2004. Pp. xiv, 278. $89.95.) ...

The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary, Queen of Scots: The Earl of Argyll and the Struggle for Britain and Ireland. By Jane E. A. Dawson. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2002....

Hughes de Loubens de Verdalle, 1531-1582-1595, Cardinal et Grand Maitre de l'Ordre de Malte.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hughes de Loubens de Verdalle, 1531-1582-1595, Cardinal et Grand Maitre de l'Ordre de Malte. By Alain Blondy. (Paris: Editions Beauchesne. 2005. Pp. 212; 7 color plates.) Alain Blondy's scrupulously researched biography of Hughes de...

Clemente VIII e il Sacro Collegio 1592-1605. Meccanismi istituzionali ed accentramento di governo.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Clemente VIII e il Sacro Collegio 1592-1605. Meccanismi istituzionali ed accentramento di governo. By Maria Teresa Fattori. [Papste und Papstum, Band 33.] (Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag. 2004. Pp. ix, 407. [euro]128,00.) Over the last...

Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. By Claire Walker. [Early Modern History: Society and Culture.] (New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. Pp. xii, 247. $72.00.) Not since Peter...

'De Adeundis Ecclesiis Protestantium': Thomas Wright, Robert Parsons, S.J., e il Dibattito sul Conformismo Occasionale nell'Inghilterra dell'Eta Moderna.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... 'De Adeundis Ecclesiis Protestantium': Thomas Wright, Robert Parsons, S.J., e il Dibattito sul Conformismo Occasionale nell'Inghilterra dell'Eta Moderna. By Ginevra Crosignani. [Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., Vol. 56.] (Rome: Institutum...

Understanding Rance: The Spirituality of the Abbot of La Trappe in Context.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Understanding Rance: The Spirituality of the Abbot of La Trappe in Context. By David N. Bell. [Cistercian Studies Series: Number 205.] (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications. 2005. Pp. xxviii, 371. Paperback.) To political...

Das Collegium Sinicum zu Neapel und seine Umwandlung in ein Orientalisches Institut. Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Das Collegium Sinicum zu Neapel und seine Umwandlung in ein Orientalisches Institut. Ein Beitrag zu seiner Geschichte. By Karl Josef Rivinius. [Collectanea Serica.] (Sankt Augustin, Germany: Institut Monumenta Serica. 2004. Pp. 174. [euro]30.00...

The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Correspondence of Catherine McAuley, 1818-1841. Edited by Mary C. Sullivan, R.S.M. (Dublin: Four Courts Press; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. 504. $49.95.) Sullivan's book, the fifth dedicated to...

Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: Financing the Vatican, 1850-1950. By John F. Pollard. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xx, 265. $85.00.) Aside from its diplomatic aspects, much of the history of the modern Papacy...

Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte (1869-1889): Religion et politique: Une recherche institutionnelle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Les Franciscains en Terre Sainte (1869-1889): Religion et politique: Une recherche institutionnelle. By Giuseppe Buffon. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf and Les Editions Franciscaines. 2005. Pp. 604. [euro]58.) Giuseppe Buffon, currently a...

The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones. By Adam Schwartz. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 416. $64.95.) Adam Schwartz uses the metaphor of a "Third...

Cattolicesimo e totalitarianismo. Chiese e culture religiose tra le due guerre mondiali (Italia, Spagna, Francia).(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Cattolicesimo e totalitarianismo. Chiese e culture religiose tra le due guerre mondiali (Italia, Spagna, Francia). Edited by Daniele Menozzi and Renato Moro. (Brescia, Italy: Editrice Morcelliana. 2004. Pp. 411. [euro]28.00.) Daniele...

The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. By Richard Steigmann-Gall. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 294.) As Richard Steigmann-Gall points out, "the insistence that Nazism was an anti-Christian...

Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37.(Irish Catholicism since 1950: The Undoing of a Culture)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Oracles of God: The Roman Catholic Church and Irish Politics, 1922-37. By Patrick Murray. (Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2000. Pp. 493. [pounds sterling]42.95 clothbound; [pounds sterling]19.95 paperback.) Irish Catholicism...

Diktatur and Diaspora: Das Bistum Meissen, 1932-1951.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Diktatur and Diaspora: Das Bistum Meissen, 1932-1951. By Birgit Mitzscherlich. [Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B: Forschungen, Band 101.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh Verlag. 2005. Pp. 725. [euro]88,00.) In...

The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII. Edited by Joseph Bottum and David G. Dalin. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 2004. Pp. vi, 282. $29.95.) Beginning in the late 1990's, a veritable...

The Myth of Hitler's Pope.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Myth of Hitler's Pope. By Rabbi David G. Dalin. (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing Co. 2005. Pp. ix, 209. $27.95.) This book had its genesis in an article by Rabbi Dalin in the Weekly Standard of February 26, 2001, entitled "Pius XII...

Zeitgeschichtliche Katholizismusforschung: Tatsachen, Deutungen, Fragen. Eine Zwischenbilanz.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Zeitgeschichtliche Katholizismusforschung: Tatsachen, Deutungen, Fragen. Eine Zwischenbilanz. Edited by Karl-Joseph Hummel. [Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B: Forschungen, Band 100.] (Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand...

My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... My Struggle for Freedom: Memoirs. By Hans Kung. Translated by John Bowden. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2003. Pp. xvii, 478. $38.00.) Hans Kung's memoirs cover his first forty years (1928-1968). Roughly...

English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. By John D. Krugler. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 122nd Series (2004).] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp....

Bohemia 1704-2004: A History of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Shrine in Cecil County, Maryland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Bohemia 1704-2004: A History of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Shrine in Cecil County, Maryland. By Thomas J. Peterman. [The Bohemian Historical Society, 2.] (Devon, Pennsylvania: William T. Cooke Publishing Co. 2004. Pp. 384. $50.00.) Saint...

Religious Expression and the American Constitution.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Religious Expression and the American Constitution. By Franklyn S. Haiman. [Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series.] (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 2003. Pp. x, 254. Paperback.) Franklyn Haiman begins by declaring that he is an...

Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations 1793-1883.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Dialogue on the Frontier: Catholic and Protestant Relations 1793-1883. By Margaret C. DePalma. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 220. $55.00.) The Kent State University Press, following its superb tradition of...

Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane. By Patrick W. Carey. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xx, 428. $28.00 paperback.) Patrick W. Carey's new biography of Orestes Augustus Brownson...

To Prefer Nothing to Christ: St. Meinrad Archabbey 1854-2004.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... To Prefer Nothing to Christ: St. Meinrad Archabbey 1854-2004. Edited by Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. (St. Meinrad, Indiana: Saint Meinrad Archabbey. 2004. Pp. xi, 520. Paperback.) Monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana were in the forefont of...

Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950. By William H. Katerberg. [McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Series Two.] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 308....

Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II. By Kevin E. Schmiesing. [Studies in Ethics and Economics.] (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 2004. Pp. xvi, 185. $75.00 clothbound; $19.95...

An Italian American Community of Faith: Holy Rosary in Washington, D.C., 1913-2003.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... An Italian American Community of Faith: Holy Rosary in Washington, D.C., 1913-2003. By Mary Elizabeth Brown. (New York: Center for Migration Studies. 2004. Pp. xi, 370. Paperback.) Mary Elizabeth Brown, professor of American history in Pace...

The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Department of Education Battle, 1918-1932: Public Schools, Catholic Schools, and the Social Order. By Douglas J. Slawson. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 332. $43.00.) One of the primary reasons for...

A Catholic Cold War. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... A Catholic Cold War. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism. By Patrick McNamara. (New York: Fordham University Press. 2005. Pp. xxi, 280. $45.00.) When the young Bill Clinton arrived at the Georgetown School of...

Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade against John Collier. By David W. Daily. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 216. $39.95.) John Collier was the most important U.S. Commissioner of Indian...

Catholics and Contraception: An American History.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Catholics and Contraception: An American History. By Leslie Woodcock Tentler. [Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America.] (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xvi, 335. $29.95.) In 1873, the...

George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... George G. Higgins and the Quest for Worker Justice: The Evolution of Catholic Social Thought in America. By John J. O'Brien. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2005. Pp. xvi, 396. $80.00 clothbound; $32.95 paperback.) ...

America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950-1957. By Seth Jacobs. (Durham: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. x, 381. $79.95 clothbound; $22.95 paperback.) In America's...

Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Covenant House: Journey of a Faith Based Charity. By Peter J. Wosh. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. Pp. vi, 288. $39.95.) Peter Wosh uses the archives of Covenant House and personal interviews to write a very...

An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia. By Geoffrey Plank. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 239. $29.95; Can $45.00 clothbound; $18.95 paperback.) The past few years have seen...

La pensee nationaliste de Lionel Groulx.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... La pensee nationaliste de Lionel Groulx. By Frederic Boily. (Sillery, Canada: Les editions du Septentrion. 2003. Pp. 229. $28.00.) Frederic Boily, a political scientist, addresses the nationalist rationale of Lionel Groulx (1878-1967),...

The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century Mexico. By Osvaldo F. Pardo. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 250; 26 plates. $70.00.) This book represents a...

False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico. By Nora E. Jaffary. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. xvii, 258. $49.95.) Based on Inquisition proceedings in colonial Mexico, this book provides a fascinating...

Mexican Karismata. The Baroque Vocation of Francisca de los Angeles, 1674-1744.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mexican Karismata. The Baroque Vocation of Francisca de los Angeles, 1674-1744. By Ellen Gunnarsdottir. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 305. $75.00 cloth; $29.95 paperback.) Ellen Gunnarsdottir offers a history of...

Good Old Doctor Mac, 1856-1927.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... McNamara, Robert F. Good Old Doctor Mac, 1856-1927. Thomas A. McNamara, Family Physician. (Utica, New York: Devon Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 130. $12.95 paperback.) Thomas A. McNamara was an old-style family physician, whose story is lovingly...

The spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association.(NOTES AND COMMENTS)
October 1, 2005... The 2005 spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association convened on the afternoon of Friday, April 22, at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, under the sponsorship of the Departments of History and Religious Studies. Members...

Conferences and colloquia.
October 1, 2005... A colloquium on "Liturgie und Zeremoniell am Papsthof der Renaissance" was held at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat in Munster on September 19-21, 2005. The only two American participants were Nelson H. Minnich of the Catholic University...

Causes of saints.(beatification of Reverend Leon Gustave Dehon suspended)(postulator appointed for beatification of Mother Mary Lange)(beatification of Emmanuele Stablum)
October 1, 2005... The Washington Post for June 16, 2005, reported that Pope Benedict XVI has temporarily suspended the beatification of the Reverend Leon Gustave Dehon (1843-1925), the French founder of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Last December it...

Historic places.(Historic Catholic Churches of Greater Bostonand Galveston's Bishop's Palace on preservation lists)
October 1, 2005... The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced on June 2, 2005, that it had included the Historic Catholic Churches of Greater Boston, Massachusetts, in its 2005 list of America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places. In a press...

Anniversaries.(Jesuit and Franciscan anniversary celebrations)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, Jose Rodriguez Carballo, in a letter addressed to the Franciscan friars, the Poor Clare nuns, and the Franciscan Contemplative Sisters, outlined the program for the celebration of the eighth...

Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum.(Publications)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The papers read at a symposium on "I Padri e le scuole teologiche nei concili," which was held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome on March 6-7, 2003, have been published in Number 1-2 for 2003 (Volume 35) of Annuarium...

Reconsiderations: A Conference on Contemporary Augustinian Scholarship.(Publications)
October 1, 2005... "Reconsiderations: A Conference on Contemporary Augustinian Scholarship" was held at Villanova University on December 4-6, 2003, and the papers read on those days have now been published in the first number of Augustinian Studies for 2005...

The "Seccion de Estudios Jacobeos" comprises the double number (3 and 4) for July-December, 2004 (Volume IL) of Compostellanum.(Publications)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The "Seccion de Estudios Jacobeos" comprises the double number (3 and 4) for July-December, 2004 (Volume IL) of Compostellanum. Some of the articles are as follows: Federico Gallegos Vazquez, "Los peregrinos, definicion juridica" (pp. 379-419);...

Rivista Storica Italiana.(Publications)
October 1, 2005... The origins of the Society of Jesus are studied in seven articles published in the issue for April, 2005 (Volume CXVII, Fascicle 1), of the Rivista Storica Italiana: Franco Motta, "La compagine sacra. Elementi di un mito delle origini nella...

Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.(Publications)(Brief article)
October 1, 2005... The centenary of the 1905 French law of separation of Church and State has been observed in the issue of the Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses for April-June, 2005 (Volume 85, Number 2), with five articles: Andre Damien,...