Our guest blogger is Julie Pramis, who is a graduate student in Library and Information Science (LIS) at the Catholic University of America. Catholics care about climate change (try saying that five times fast). Here in the archives we have a collection of papers from the Catholic Climate Covenant (CCC), a non-profit organization based in Read More
Posts with the tag: USCCB
The Archivist’s Nook: “Don’t be Crude” – Protecting the Earth like a Catholic
Posted in: Blogs Digital Scholarship Humanities The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Climate change, Environmentalism, Our Sunday Visitor, USCCB | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: “Mother” Millar’s Mission – Catholic Women’s Service in WWI
Imagine you purchased a box of used books and found buried within a tattered satchel dating from the First World War. What would you do with it? This scenario played in the summer of 2016, when a thrift store benefiting an Alabama-based women’s shelter contacted the CUA Archives. Hidden within a box of cookbooks – Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), Fr. John Burke, Margaret Richards Millar, National Catholic War Council, NCWC, USCCB, Women Workers, World War I | Comment
The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic University Declares War
The decisive entry of the United States of America into the calamitous First World War on April 6, 1917 joining Britain and France against Imperial Germany was a momentous event in the history of the American Catholic Church. Making up about seventeen percent of the American population, Catholic support of the war effort was a Read More
Posted in: The Archivist's Nook University Archives | Tags: Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, Edward L. Killion, Fr, Fr. John Burke, Francis Duffy, Maloney Hall, Msgr. Peter Guilday, National Catholic War Council, President Woodrow Wilson, Student Army Training Corps (SATC), USCCB, World War I, WWI | Comment