The Catholic Historical Review back issues from April 2003:
Os Salesianos e a Educacao na Bahia e em Sergipe-Brasil, 1897-1970
Apr 01, 2003; ... Os Salesianos e a Educacao na Bahia e em Sergipe-Brasil, 1897-1970. By Antenor de Andrade Silva. [Istituto Storico Salesiano-Roma, Studi 14.] (Rome: LAS [Libreria Ateneo Salesiano]. 2000. Pp. 431. Lire 40.000.) This study of the Salesian education in the Brazilian states of Bahia and ...
Obituaries
Apr 01, 2003; ... Stevens-Arroyo, "The Catholic Worldview in the Political Philosophy of Pedro Albizu Campos: The Death Knell of Puerto Rican Insularity" (pp. 53-73); David A. Badillo,"Catholicism and the Search for Nationhood in Miami's Cuban Community" (pp. 75-90); and Gerald E. Poyo, "'Integration without ...
Loretto-The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel, Revised Edition
Apr 01, 2003; ... Cook, Mary Jean Straw. Loretto-The Sisters and Their Santa Fe Chapel, Revised Edition. (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 118. $22.50 paperbound.) The chapel of Our Lady of Light, more commonly known as "the Loretto Chapel" or the "chapel of the miraculous ...
Bernardino de Sahagun: First Anthropologist
Apr 01, 2003; ... Latin American Bernardino de Sabagun: First Anthropologist. By Miguel Leon-Portilla. Translated by Mauricio J. Mixco. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 324. $29.95.) The Franciscan priest Bernardino de Sahagun was born in Spain in 1499 and in 1529 emigrated to ...
Monjas y beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca Novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII
Apr 01, 2003; ... Monjas y beatas: La escritura femenina en la espiritualidad barroca Novohispana, siglos XVII y XVIII. Edited by Asuncion Lavrin and Rosalva Loreto L. (Puebla: Universidad de las Americas-Puebla and Archive General de la Nacion. 2002. Pp. 275. Paperback.) Over the past twenty years, a ...
Pio XII: Attraverso le Immagini
Apr 01, 2003; ... Marchione, Margherita. Pio XII:Attraverso le Immagini. (Vatican City: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 2002. Pp. 214. euro14,00.) This life of Pope Pius XII through pictures is dedicated to Pope John Paul II. Following a preface by Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore, there are brown and ...
Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900-1950
Apr 01, 2003; ... Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900-1950. By James Talmadge Moore. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 263. $39.95.) In 1998 Father James Talmadge Moore retired as professor of history from North Harris College in Houston, Texas, and resumed ...
Edward Sorin
Apr 01, 2003; ... Edward Sorin. By Marvin R. O'Connell. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001. Pp. x, 737. $49.95.) This biography of the founder of the University of Notre Dame is exhaustive and definitive. Yet just as O'Connell finds the "author's apparently obsessive concern for ...
Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater
Apr 01, 2003; ... Father Hartke: His Life and Legacy to the American Theater. By Mary Jo Santo Pietro. (Washington, D.C.:The Catholic University of America Press. 2002. Pp. xix, 383. $39.95.) By way of disclosure, this reviewer notes that his own life was shaped by Gilbert V. Hartke, O.P., whose ...
Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul
Apr 01, 2003; ... Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. By Mary Lethert Wingerd. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 326. $29.95.) Mary Lethert Wingerd's Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul originated as a history ...
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Apr 01, 2003; ... A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair. By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. Pp. 352. $25.00.) A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair is ...
Jonathan Edwards and the Bible
Apr 01, 2003; ... Jonathan Edwards and the Bible. By Robert E. Brown. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2002. Pp. xxi, 292. $35.00.) Jonathan Edwards's star has been rising among scholars. Recognized widely as America's greatest theologian, he is also cited as America's premier philosopher before ...
Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Apr 01, 2003; ... American Spain in the Southwest: A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California. By John L. Kessell. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 462. $45.00.) Herbert Eugene Bolton, before and during his tenure in the history department at ...
Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America
Apr 01, 2003; ... Catholics and Jews in Twentieth-Century America. By Egal Feldman. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 323. $34.95.) Egal Feldman is professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin. He has previously written on the Jewish-Protestant relations in ...
Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gove Nichols
Apr 01, 2003; ... Shameless: The Visionary Life of Mary Gave Nichols. By Jean L. Silver-Isenstadt. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp.xii, 342. $24.95.) In 1857 Mary Gove Nichols (1810-1884), along with her husband Thomas, were received into the Catholic Church in Cincinnati. Their ...
The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Irish in the South, 1815-1877. By David T. Gleeson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 278. $45.00 hardcover, $19.95 paperback.) Hoping to recover the story of "the forgotten people of the Old South," David Gleeson helps reintroduce ethnicity into the ...
True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco's Spain
Apr 01, 2003; ... True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco's Spain. By Aurora G. Morcillo. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2000. Pp. ix, 214. $36.00.) The Franco regime shared with the Roman Catholic Church a series of assumptions about gender roles and their allegedly 'natural' ...
The Black International / L'Internationale noire, 1870-1878. The Holy See and Militant Catholicism in Europe / Le Saint-Siege et le Catholicisme militant en Europe
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Black International / L'Internationale noire, 1870-1878. The Holy see and Militant Catholicism in Europe / Le Saint-Siege et le Catholicisme militant en Europe. Edited by Emiel Lamberts. [KADOC-Studies 29.] (Leuven: Leuven University Press. 2002. Pp. 515.45euro.) This collection of ...
Pius XII and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy
Apr 01, 2003; ... Pius XH and the Holocaust: Understanding the Controversy. By Jose M. Sanchez. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2002.Pp. ix, 197. $39.95 cloth; $19.95 paperback.) The first criticism of the silence of Pope Pius XII when confronted by the atrocities of the ...
Pedro Segura: Un cardenal de fronteras
Apr 01, 2003; ... Pedro Segura: Un cardenal de fronteras. By Francisco GiI Delgado. (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos. 2001. Pp. xxvii, 786. euro33.56.) In the political and ecclesiastical history of Spain during the first half of the twentieth century, few figures were more controversial than ...
Johann Michael Sailer: Das postume Inquisitionsverfahren
Apr 01, 2003; ... Late Modern European Johann Michael Sailer: Das postume Inquisitionsverfahren. By Hubert Wolf. [Romische Inquisition und Indexkongregation, Bd. 2.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2002. Pp. 273. euro29.80.) From the eighteenth century until Vatican Council I, several German ...
The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion. By Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xiii, 346. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) This book is packed with narrative, analyses, and divorce case studies. The author, a ...
Le Cardinal Lienart: Eveque de Lille, 1928-1968
Apr 01, 2003; ... Le Cardinal Lienart: Eveque de Lille, 1928-1968. By Catherine Masson. (Paris: Editions du Cerf. 2001. Pp. 769. 250 FF.) Once again an historian of Catholic France has written a biography of a significant church figure in the grand style of a magnum opus. In this instance the choice fell ...
Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity
Apr 01, 2003; ... Father Mathew, Temperance and Irish Identity. By Paul A. Townend. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press. Distributed in the United States by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Oregon. 2002. Pp. viii, 327. $49.50.) Theobald Mathew (1790-1856) is often portrayed as an anomaly. The ...
La Contre-Reforme et les Constitutions de Port Royal
Apr 01, 2003; ... La Contre-Reforme et les Constitutions de Port Royal. By E Ellen Weaver. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2002. Pp. 242. euro29 paperback.) There is no question that E Ellen Weaver's study of Port Royal's Constitutions is a must-read book for scholars of Port Royal and Janscnism. But the ...
God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science
Apr 01, 2003; ... God's Two Books: Copernican Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern Science. By Kenneth J. Howell. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 319. $39-95.) Both Copernicans and anti-Copernicans employed similar approaches in interpreting the ...
The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280, Volume Two
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280, Volume Two. Edited and translated by O. F. Robinson. [The Canterbury and York Society, Volume LXXXVII] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp.viii, 138. $45.00.) This is the second of a three-volume edition and ...
Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum
Apr 01, 2003; ... Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum. By Christopher S. Celenza. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume C1.] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp.xiii, 238. $85.00.) This is a careful edition and translation of a text of intrinsic interest for those ...
St Birgitta of Sweden
Apr 01, 2003; ... St Birgitta of Sweden. By Bridget Morris. [Studies in Medieval Mysticism, Volume 1.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 1999. Pp. xiv, 202. $60.00.) St Birgitta of Sweden is long overdue-not the work itself, which represents the culmination of over two decades of research, but the ...
Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe
Apr 01, 2003; ... Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe. Edited by Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta,and Graeme Murdock. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. xviii, 207.$84.95.) This carefully edited collection refines some of the papers presented at a ...
Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism
Apr 01, 2003; ... Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism. By Beth A. Griech-Polelle.(NewHaven: Yale University Press. 2002.Pp.xi,259. $35.00.) Bishop of Munster from October, 1933, until his death in March, 1946, five weeks after receiving a cardinal's hat from Pope Pius XII, von ...
St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition
Apr 01, 2003; ... St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition. By Hilarion Alfeyev. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp.338.L57.) Alfeyev's monograph on the eleventh-century monk Symeon the New Theologian completes half a century of critical editions and ...
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Apr 01, 2003; ... Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature. By Ananya Jahanara Kabir. [Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 32.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 210. $70.00.) Ananya Jahanara Kabir's study addresses the Anglo-Saxons' evolving understanding of a ...
The Council of Bourges, 1225: A Documentary History
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Council of Bourges, 1225:A Documentary History.By Richard Kay. [Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West.] (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2002. Pp. xxviii, 599. $114.95.) Except only for the Fourth Lateran Council, the Council of Bourges that met in 1225 was ...
Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Number Fifty-five, 2001
Apr 01, 2003; ... Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Number Fifty-five, 2001. (Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. 2002. Pp. vii, 408. $100.00.) This issue comprises the acts of two colloquia held at Dumbarton Oaks in 1999, the first on "Byzantine Eschatology: Views on Death and the ...
Friedrich von Hugel, Cutbbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes, Correspondance
Apr 01, 2003; ... Friedrich von Hugel, Cuthbert Hamilton Turner et les Bollandistes. Correspondance. Presentation, edition et commentaire par Bernard Joassart. [Tabularium hagiographicum, vol. 2.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2002.Pp. 157.40euro.) An adequate appreciation of this book requires the ...
The eighty-third annual meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association
Apr 01, 2003; ... Report of the Committee on Program The Committee on the Program, consisting of Maureen Miller of George Mason University, Thomas Tweed of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and J. Dean O'Donnell and Frederic Baumgartner, both of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ...
Uber die Entwicklungsgeschichte des armenischen Symbolums:Ein Vergleich mit dem syrischen und griechischen Formelgut unter einbezug der relevanten georgischen und athiopischen Quellen
Apr 01, 2003; ... Ancient and Medieval Uber die Entwicklungsgeschichte des armenischen Symbolums:Ein Vergleich mit dem syrischen und griechischen Formelgut unter Einbezug der relevanten georgischen und athiopischen Quellen. By Gabriele Winkler. [Orientalia Christiana Analecta, Volume 262.] (Rome: ...
Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents
Apr 01, 2003; ... Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents. Edited by Thomas O'Loughlin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the United States by ISBS, Portland, Ore. 2001. Pp. 77. $55.00.) This small but valuable book is the work of three distinguished scholars, ...
Correspondance: Repertoire,Tome 1:1816-1839
Apr 01, 2003; ... Henri-Dominique Lacordaire. Correspondance:Repertoire, Tome 1:1816-1839. Edited and arranged by Guy Bedouelle and Christoph-sAlois Martin. (Paris: Editions du Cerf. 2001. Pp. lxxvii, 1429. euro72.-.) Jean-Baptiste-Henri (later Dominique) Lacordaire (1802-1861) is known to American and ...
Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy
Apr 01, 2003; ... Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy. By Jay R Corrin. (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. Pp. x, 571. $55.00.) Not the synthesis that one might expect from the title, this book actually focuses on selected Catholic intellectuals influential in ...
Metropolitan might and papal power on the Latin-Christian frontier: Tranforming the Danish church around the time of the Fourth Lateran Council
Apr 01, 2003; ... Even before the Fourth Lateran Council met in the autumn of 1215, contemporaries believed it would be one of the greatest ever convoked. When the archbishop of Lund, Anders Sunesen, tried to excuse himself from attending, Innocent III expressed chagrin. "Even if you had not been summoned," the ...
Culte des saints et anticlericalisme. Entre statistique et culture populaire
Apr 01, 2003; ... Culte des saints et anticlericalisme. Entre statistique et culture populaire. By Louis Perouas. [Memoires et documents sur le Bas-Limousin, Vol. XXIV] (Ussel: Musee du Pays d'Ussel; Paris: Diffusion de Boccard. 2002. Pp. xxxiv, 504. Paperback.) It is not often that a collection of an ...
American Catholicism?: John England and "The Republic in Danger"
Apr 01, 2003; ... The first decades of the nineteenth century were a period of phenomenal growth in the Catholic Church in the United States. A relatively small minority at the time of the American Revolution, Catholicism became the single largest religious denomination in the country by mid-century, largely on ...
"I will observe absolute and perpetual secrecy:"The historical background of the rigid secrecy found in papal elections
Apr 01, 2003; ... The title of this address is taken from the oath that cardinals participating in the next papal election will swear repeatedly in the course of a conclave. The oath is found in Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution on papal elections published in 1996.1 It is an oath that all ...
The Late Medieval Pope Prophecies: The Genus nequam Group
Apr 01, 2003; ... The Late Medieval Pope Prophecies: The Genus nequam Group. Edited by Martha H. Fleming. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 204.] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. 1999. Pp. xi, 207; 15 pls. $25.00.) The Late Medieval ...
Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance
Apr 01, 2003; ... Early Modern European Religious Authority in the Spanish Renaissance. By Lu Ann Homza. [The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 118th Series.] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Pp. xxv, 312. $39.95.) Lu Ann Homza's Religious ...
Crusade Charters, 11.38-1270
Apr 01, 2003; ... Crusade Charters, 1138-1270. Corliss Konwisser Slack with English translations by Hugh Bernard Feiss. [Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 197.] (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. 2001. Pp. xxx, 229. $28.00.) Crusade ...
St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology
Apr 01, 2003; ... St. John Damascene: Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology. By Andrew Louth. [Oxford Early Christian Studies.] (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xvii, 327.L45.) This book reminds me of the merchant finding a pearl of great price, and selling everything to possess it ....
Vita di san Benedetto, versione greca di papa Zaccaria
Apr 01, 2003; ... Gregorio Magno, Vita di san Benedetto, versione greca di papa Zaccaria. Edited by Gianpaolo Rlgotti. [Hellenica, 8.] (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. 2001.Pp. 150. euro15 paperback.) Fruit of a doctorate under the direction of the lamented Italian Byzantinist, Professor Enrica Follieri, ...
The Early Modern Papacy. From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789
Apr 01, 2003; ... General The Early Modern Papacy. From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789. By A. D. Wright. [Longman History of the Papacy.] (London; Harlow, Essex: Longman. 2000. Pp. ix, 335. Paperback.) While the Council of Trent did not issue any decrees relating to the ...
Thy kingdom come: Patriotism, prophecy, and the catholic hierarchy in nineteenth-century Poland
Apr 01, 2003; ... Few sentences have been more troublesome over the centuries than the second line of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.'1 Many Christians have taken comfort in the promise that an earthly kingdom of God was approaching, and some have turned this ...