✦ Citizen Saint ✦

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-124
Author(s):  
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
The Catholic Church

This chapter focuses on the life and afterlife of Frances Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart who served as a missionary in the United States between her arrival in New York in 1889 and her death in Chicago in 1917. Pope Pius XI beatified Cabrini in 1938, and Pius XII canonized her in 1946. This record speed was owed both to her proximity to the Roman center of power in the Catholic church and her popularity on the American periphery, given the ways her life story could be molded to support American ideals of sainthood that foregrounded immigration, urbanization, and U.S. citizenship.

The catholic church and the Irish temperance movement, 1838–1901

1982 ◽  
Vol 23 (89) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Temperance Movement ◽  
Sacred Heart ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The Catholic Church

It is ironic that in Ireland, a country which has witnessed some of the most successful catholic-inspired crusades against alcohol consumption, the catholic church cannot be said to have been particularly favourably inclined towards the temperance movement. The Irish protestant churches and the catholic church in countries like the United States of America, England and Australia (where its membership was largely Irish) were far more forthright and consistent in their support for temperance than was the catholic church in Ireland itself. The Irish church’s ambivalent attitude to the anti-drink movement sprang from a variety of sources, some related to the nature of Irish society, others to the nature of the Irish temperance movement. To elucidate the church’s attitude and the reasons for its hostility to the anti-drink movement, I shall in this paper examine the development of the catholic temperance movement in Ireland from Father Mathew’s crusade in the 1840s to the rise of the Pioneer Total Abstinence League of the Sacred Heart in the 1890s.

Dialogue and Conversion

Horizons ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Maurice Schepers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Catholic Church

On August 12, 1996, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago († November 14, 1996), released a statement entitled “Called to Be Catholic Church in a Time of Peril,” which concretized an initiative called the Catholic Common Ground Project. This project is to be staffed by the thirteen-year-old, New York-based, National Pastoral Life Center, which was originally established under the auspices of the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Bishops' Conference. The peril which is the project's concern is the polarization that has developed in the Catholic Church in the United States in the course of the thirtyodd years elapsed since the close of the Second Vatican Council.

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