Guest author is Steve Rosswurm, Professor of History, Emeritus, at Lake Forest College, and author of The FBI and the Catholic Church (2009), The CIO’s Left-Led Unions (1992), and Arms, Country and Class (1987). Archbishop Wilton Gregory, recently named the first Afro-American cardinal of the Church, more than once has pointed to Monsignor John M. Read More
Posts with the tag: National Catholic Welfare Conference
The Archivist’s Nook: The Priestly Labors of John M. Hayes
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Blogs, Catholic History, Chicago, Congress of Industrial Organizations, George G. Higgins, Humanities, John A. Ryan, Linna Bresette, National Catholic Welfare Conference, Raymond McGowan, Religious Studies, Social Action Department, Social Reconstruction, University Archives, Wilton Gregory | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: From Manila to Madrid – Montavon’s Legal Department Goes Global
In 1901, a young man named William F. Montavon (1874-1959) finished his studies at Catholic University in order to marry his wife, Mary Agnes Burrow. Little did he how the next 50 years would be a whirlwind of international travel, legal advocacy, and global upheaval. To understand the story of Montavon is to understand the Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Cristero War, immigration, National Catholic Welfare Conference, NCWC Legal Department, New Deal, Oregon School Case, Social Security, Spanish Civil War, University Archives, William F. Montavon | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Tending the Fields of Social Justice
Linna Eleanor Bresette (1882-1960), was a teacher and pioneering social justice advocate in her native Kansas for nearly a decade before serving for thirty years as the field secretary of the Social Action Department (SAD) of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (now the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). It was with the SAD that Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Labor advocate, Linna Eleanor Bresette, National Catholic Welfare Conference, Social Action Department, social justice, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, University Archives | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: The First Catholic Action Hero
June 6, 1875, is the birthday of the widely influential New York City born John Burke, a Catholic University of America (CUA) educated priest (.S.T.B. 1899; S.T.L., 1901) of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle, a religious community known as the Paulists. Burke saw a convergence of both American and Catholic values that Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Catholic History, Catholic World, Charles Coughlin, Distinguished Service Medal, Fr. John Burke, Franklin D. Roosevelt, National Catholic War Council, National Catholic Welfare Conference, Oregon School Case, Paulists, U.S. War Department, University Archives, World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: CUA + .EDU
When those familiar with The Catholic University of America think of this school, they may think of a national Catholic University, which it is. It also served as the center of Catholic education in the United States throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Back in the late-nineteenth century, a man named Thomas J. Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: Catholic Education, Catholic History, Catholic University of America, Commission on American Citizenship, Faith and Freedom Readers, Francis Howard, National Catholic Education Association, National Catholic Welfare Conference, University Archives | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Putting Their Money Where Their Hearts Were
Among the archival collections housed at The Catholic University of America (CUA) are the papers of Bruce Monroe Mohler (1881-1967) and Dorothy Abts Mohler (1908-2000), two of the most remarkable people ever produced by the American Catholic Church. Both epitomized the active participation of the laity as each contributed a lifetime of humanitarian service in Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook | Tags: American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Bruce Monroe Mohler, Catholic Charities, Catholic History, Dorothy Abts Mohler, immigration, National Catholic School of Social Service, National Catholic Welfare Conference, social justice, social welfare, University Archives | Comment