Conference

ACHA Spring Meeting

Religion Matters Symposium

AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
SPRING MEETING 2006

Schedule of Events
Friday, April 7th

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Friday, April 7th

Coffee and refreshments available throughout the day
beginning at 8:00 a.m. outside Rehm Library, 3rd Floor Smith Hall.

8:30 - 10:15	Session IV
Rehm Library Smith Hall	The Material Culture of Popular Piety Chair/Commentator: Ellen Kosmer, Worcester State College Virginia C. Raguin, College of the Holy Cross A 15th Century English Passion Scroll: Vernacular Devotional Text and Images (exhibited) Milda Richardson, Boston University Lithuanian Wayside Shrines in the 20th century
Room 201 Smith Hall	Catholic Outreach in the 19th Century Chair/Commentator: David O’Brien, College of the Holy Cross William M. Klimon, Washington DC “One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism”: The Work of the Catholic Press at Harford, Connecticut, 1829 – 1833 Ruth Kelly, D’Youville College The Catholic World of Isaac Hecker
10:30 - 12:15	Session V
Rehm Library Smith Hall	Martyrdom and Its Legacies Chair: Anthony Kuzniewski, College of the Holy Cross Ramona Garcia, Fairfield CT 20th-Century Catholics Historians and Apologists and the Legacy of John Foxe ( 1901-1959) Madeline Grace, C.V.I., University of St. Thomas John Fisher (1469-1535) and Thomas More (1478- 1535): Martyrs of a Different Vintage Commentator: Robert Scully S.J., LeMoyne College
Room 201 Smith Hall	Origins of Catholic Liturgical Renewal and Social Justice in the Early 20th Century U.S. Chair/Commentator, Margaret McGuiness, Cabrini College Thomas Fisch, Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity William Busch: The Father of the Liturgical Movement in the United States Anne Kleiment, University of St. Thomas Fr. Paul Bussard and Early Liturgical Renewal Scott Wright, University of St. Thomas Competing Loyalties of Ethnicity, Pope and Country: “The Catholic Bulletin” and the First World War
12:30 - 2:00 Hogan Campus Center	Lunch (on your own)
2:15 - 4:00	Session VI
Room 201 Smith Hall	The “National” Poet Chair/Commentator: Helen Whall, College of the Holy Cross Scott Michael Cleary, Providence College “No Creature in Nature so Venomous”: Alexander Pope as a Catholic Writer Nicholas Creary, Marquette University Catholicism and B.W. Vilakazi, South African Poet, 1906 – 1947
Rehm Library Smith Hall	Early Modern Spain Chair: James Powers, College of the Holy Cross Patricia Zapico, Oviedo The Silent Spanish Armada:Seminary Priests in Elizabethan England Charlene Kalinoski, Roanoke College Something about Mary (of Agreda): The Complex Legacy of a 17th-Century Spanish Mystic Commentator: Daniel Frost, College of the Holy Cross
4:30 p.m. St. Joseph's Memorial Chapel	Closing Mass (Mass of Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion) Most Rev. Robert J. McManus, S.T.D., Bishop of Worcester, Presider Rev. James Hayes, S.J., Rector, Jesuit Community at Holy Cross, and Associate College Chaplain, Homilist