The Catholic Church In Boston

Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555533595
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Catholics written by Thomas H. O'Connor and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging work, now available in paperback, Thomas H. O'Connor chronicles the activities, achievements, and failures of the Church's leaders and parishioners over the course of two centuries.

Author : Thomas O'Connor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Catholics : A History of the Church and Its People written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging work, Thomas H. O'Connor chronicles the activities, achievements, and failures of the Church's leaders and parishioners over the course of two centuries. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 1998. With a new foreword by James M. O'Toole.

Author : Martin Middlebrook
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Church in Boston written by Martin Middlebrook and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas P. Lester
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439665044
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic Boston written by Thomas P. Lester and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange as it may seem today, until 1780 it was illegal to practice Catholicism in Massachusetts, and even then scarcely tolerated, the first public Mass not being celebrated until eight years later. By 1808, so much progress had been made that Pope Pius VII created the Diocese of Boston, which then encompassed all of New England. The community continued to grow throughout the 19th century and by the early 20th century was a significant part of the Boston community. The Catholic community had come of age, from newcomers with customs often perceived as strange, to being ever present at public events and in local, state, and national politics. This book traces the evolution of the Catholic community and its relationship with the larger Boston community, from its very humble beginnings in the 18th century through the death of Card. Richard J. Cushing in 1970.

Author : James M. O'Toole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Militant and Triumphant written by James M. O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant and Triumphant fills a major gap in the historical record of American Catholicism by presenting a vivid, objective portrait of Cardinal William Henry O'Connell and his significance in the church and his times. Focusing on both the triumphs and controversies of O'Connell's career, James M. O'Toole chronicles the history of the Catholic Church in Boston in the first half of the twentieth century. The biography begins with a lively discussion of O'Connell's Irish immigrant youth and education and his early positions as rector of the American College in Rome and bishop of Portland, Maine. O'Toole convincingly demonstrates that as bishop, O'Connell actively built his own public image while ambitiously campaigning for the position of archbishop of Boston. The most enduring success, O'Toole argues, of O'Connell's 37-year tenure as archbishop of Boston--despite a sexual and financial scandal surrounding his nephew, the archdiocesan chancellor--was his elaboration of "a personal style of leadership that was different from that of earlier bishops, changing the expectations for Catholic bishops in America by thrusting on them the role of public figures they have generally south to play since." Throughout, the book examines O'Connell's cultural and symbolic leadership of New England's Catholic population, and describes O'Connell's role in defining American Catholicism as both "militant and triumphant": asserting its cultural vision beyond narrow denominational boundaries into broad areas of public morality, and confident of its eventual triumph over secular standards.

Author : Philip F. Lawler
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594033749
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Faithful Departed written by Philip F. Lawler and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Faithful Departed" traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that echoed throughout the United States as religious institutions lost influence in the face of rising secularization.

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316075589
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betrayal written by and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of reporters writing for "The Boston Globe" has amassed evidence that points to a long history of cover-ups, hush money, and emotional blackmail used by the Catholic Church to hide sexual abuse within its ranks. Their investigation is the subject of this book.

Author : William Byrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introductory [by] William Byrne. Archdiocese of Boston [by] W. A. Leahy. Diocese of Providence [by] Austin Dowling. Diocese of Portland [by] E. J. A. Young. Diocese of Manchester [by] J. E. Finen written by William Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New England Catholic Historical Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorial Volume of the One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration of the Dedication of the Church of the Holy Cross, Boston, L803-September-1903 written by New England Catholic Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John C. Seitz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674061314
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Closure written by John C. Seitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close or merge more than eighty parish churches. Scores of Catholics—28,000, by the archdiocese’s count—would be asked to leave their parishes. The closures came just two years after the first major revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover up. Wounds from this profound betrayal of trust had not healed. In the months that followed, distraught parishioners occupied several churches in opposition to the closure decrees. Why did these accidental activists resist the parish closures, and what do their actions and reactions tell us about modern American Catholicism? Drawing on extensive fieldwork and with careful attention to Boston’s Catholic history, Seitz tells the stories of resisting Catholics in their own words, and illuminates how they were drawn to reconsider the past and its meanings. We hear them reflect on their parishes and the sacred objects and memories they hold, on the way their personal histories connect with the history of their neighborhood churches, and on the structures of authority in Catholicism. Resisters describe how they took their parishes and religious lives into their own hands, and how they struggled with everyday theological questions of respect and memory; with relationships among religion, community, place, and comfort; and with the meaning of the local church. No Closure is a story of local drama and pathos, but also a path of inquiry into broader questions of tradition and change as they shape Catholics’ ability to make sense of their lives in a secular world.