HIUS/RELC 2401: History of American Catholicism

Fall 2015

Class website on Collab: 14F HIUS 2401-001 (CGAS)  Because this course is cross-listed between History and Religious Studies, Collab gives preference to the history designation because it only knows alphabetical order.

G. P. Fogarty, S.J.   

Office: Gibson Hall 431

Office Hours:  Tues. and Thurs.1:00-1:45; 3:30-4:30

     Other times by appointment

Phone numbers: office: 924-6707; home: 979-8592; cell: 242-8592

E-mail: gpf@virginia.edu

 

Course Requirements:

(1) Midterm Examination

(2) Final Examination—

(3) An analysis of one of the documents chosen from the two collections of documents of American Catholic History on reserve in Clemens.  You should consult me about the document you choose.  The assignment is due on Nov. 19 no later than Oct. 6.  . I will explain more about this assignment in class.

 

Required Reading:

In accordance with the university’s efforts to cut down costs, the text books are available either at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble, at considerable savings. 

James Hennesey, American Catholics

Gerald P. Fogarty, The Vatican and the American Hierarchy--this will be available on the class home page as a PDF file.  The prices for this book that I found with Amazon and Barnes and Noble are prohibitive.

Other readings will be on the class home page.

 

Tentative Schedule of Topics:

An outline for each topic will be posted on the class webpage, accessed from my personal homepage­­­­­­­­­­.

 

Aug. 25      INTRODUCTION

Aug. 27-Sept. 1: Catholicism in New Spain and New France                  

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 9-35

Sept. 3-8: Catholicism in Colonial Maryland

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 36-54

                    Fogarty, "Property and Religious Liberty in Colonial Maryland Catholic Thought," Catholic Historical Review, 72 (1986), 573-600 (home page)

Sept. 10-15: John Carroll and the Early Republic 

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 55-88

                      Letters of Carroll home page)

Sept. 17-22: John England and Episcopal Collegiality

                   Readings: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 89-115

 

 

Sept. 24-29: Women's Religious Orders; Immigration and Nativism

     Showing of "the Irish In America", Sept. 30

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 116-171

                    Thompson, "Discovering Foremothers" (home page)

                    Davis "Black Catholics" (home page)

 

Oct. 1: Mid-term—the date of this might be changed.  This will be sent by e-mail to be returned to me by e-mail. 

 

Oct. 6-8:  The Laity in the Church: Lay Initiative and Trusteeism

                   Readings: Patrick Carey, "The Laity's Understanding of the Trustee System" (home page)

                   Address of Norfolk Trustee (home page)           

 

Oct. 13: Reading Day

 

Oct. 15-20: War of the Prelates: 19th Century Liberalism, Ethnic Tension, and the Social Question, Part I

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 181-203.

       Fogarty, The Vatican and the American Hierarchy, pp. 27-142.

 

  

Oct. 22-27: Americanism and Modernism: The Demise of Catholic Intellectual Life

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 204-220

                    Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 143-194

                 

 

Oct. 29-Nov. 3: "The New Immigration" and Popular Piety

                   Reading: Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 172-181.

 

Nov. 5-10: Romanization of the Hierarchy/Americanization of the People

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 221-253

                    Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 195-258

                   Nickels, "Thomas Wyatt Turner" (home page)

                    

 

Nov. 12-17: From World War II to Kennedy

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 254-306

                    Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 259-345       

                    Kennedy, Speech to Houston Ministers (home page)

 

Nov. 19-24: Vatican II and Religious Liberty

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 307-313

                    Fogarty, Vatican, pp. 346-401

 

 

Nov. 25-29: Thanksgiving break

 

Dec. 1-3:  Suburban Catholicism and Urban dwellers and summary

                   Readings:  Hennesey, American Catholicism, pp. 313-332

                   Moses Sandoval, "Hispanic Immigrants" (home page)

                   Deck, "Spirituality of United States Hispanics" (xerox)

                   Cuomo, Notre Dame Speech (home page)

                   Bernardin, "Seamless Garment" (home page)

 

 

Dec. 8:  no class

 

Dec. 17: FINAL EXAM—This can be taken earlier than the scheduled date and time, but delivered to me by e-mail, as was the mid-term, no later than Dec. 17

 

 

Reference works in Alderman (Reference Room) and/or Clemons:

 

New Catholic Encyclopedia--this is not The Catholic Encyclopedia on the web, published between 1908 and 1914.

 

John Tracy Ellis (ed.), Documents of American Catholic History (Clemons reserve)

 

Steven M. Avella and Elizabeth McKeown (eds.), Public Voices: Catholics in the American Context (Clemons reserve)

 

John Tracy Ellis and Robert Trisco (eds.), Guide to American Catholic History

 

Michael Glazier and Thomas Shelley (eds.), Encyclopedia of American Catholic History