Catholic Church

Valiant Struggles and Benign Neglect: Italians, Church, and Religious Societies in Diaspora: The Australian Experience from 1950 to 2000

This study, based on both published and unpublished material, delves into the dynamic and ongoing interaction between Italian Migrants, the Catholic Church, and Religious Societies that have emerged in many countries as a result of more than a century of...

The Scalabrinians in North America (1887-1934)

This book is a historical narrative of the Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians in North America, a community of religious dedicated to ministering to migrants and refugees, from their inception in 1887 to their adoption of simple perpetual vows in 1934,...

John Baptist Scalabrini, Apostle to Emigrants

The purpose of this biography is to provide a substantially complete documentation of the thought, the work, and, above all, the spirituality of John Baptist Scalabrini. The main goal of this work was to present the essential traits of Scalabrini’s...

John Baptist Scalabrini and Italian Migration: A Socio-Pastoral Project

John Baptist Scalabrini and Italian Migration traces the history of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo-Scalabrinians back to its origins during the second half of the nineteenth century, and then to follow the course of its...

Immigration Today: Pastoral and Research Challenges: Proceedings of the Symposium organized by the Center for Migration Studies of New York and Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on May 8, 1998

Part I of this book includes four original essays focusing on the pastoral responses of the Catholic Church to contemporary (relative to the time of publication) immigration. Part II contains four original papers on a range of ongoing research addressing...

From Italian Villages to Greenwich Village: Our Lady of Pompei, 1892-1992

Our Lady of Pompei began as a chapel serving Italians in transit through New York Harbor. It anchored a community of Genoan Immigrants in Greenwich Village, and assisted Italian-born parents in raising their American-born offspring in this new environment. Since...

For the Love of Immigrants: Migration Writings and Letters of Bishop John Baptist Scalabrini (1839-1905)

For the Love of Immigrants contains the migration writings and the correspondence with American bishops, here translated into English for the first time, of blessed John Baptist Scalabrini, who championed the cause of immigrants during the mass exodus from Italy...

Father Pio Parolin, The Son of Adrian Pedo

This brief autobiography gives us an insight into the deep spirituality, the devoted love for Christ, and the filial devotion to Our Lady that made Father Pio the dedicated and exemplary priest he was during the sixty-nine years of his...

European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1870-1920

European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1870-1920, addresses the question: how does a predominantly Irish-American Church in Connecticut accommodate to the massive immigration of Southern and Eastern European Catholics during the four decades surrounding the 20th century (1880-1920)?...

Churches, Communities, and Children: Italian Immigrants in the Archdiocese of New York, 1880-1945

Churches, Communities, and Children tells two parallel stories. The first is that of the generations-long process by which Italian immigrants became Italian American Catholics. The second story is that of how the Archdiocese of New York adapted to its increasingly...