Posts with the tag: Canon Law

The Archivist’s Nook: CatholicU Lays Down the Law

CatholicU’s Special Collections includes rare books, museum, university archives, and manuscripts. University archives and manuscripts, the latter donations of non-university institutional records and personal papers, document the American Catholic experience from  education and labor to politics and social justice, including secular and canon (church) law, which often overlap.  University archives include three sets of record Read More

Posted in: News & Events The Archivist's Nook | Tags: , , , , , , | Comment


The Archivist’s Nook: A Century in Caldwell – The School of Canon Law at 100

September 26, 1923 marked the opening of lectures for the 1923-24 academic year at Catholic University. Students hustled between classes in McMahon and Caldwell Halls, on what may have seemed a typical start to a new semester. But on this particular day, a new School opened on campus – the School of Canon Law. Since Read More

Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: , , , | Comment


The Archivist’s Nook: CUA’s Patriarch of Patristics

As indispensable and central to Catholic University as Caldwell Hall, the School of Theology and Religious Studies has been an inseparable part of the identity of the University from its first days. But what makes up a good Theology School? The only way to ensure the proper cultivation of our future scholars and clergy is Read More

Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comment