2022 Spring Meeting
April 22-23
University of Scranton

Panels

Friday, April 22
9:00 AM

PANEL 1:  “CATHOLICISM AND THE MODERN WORLD”

Chair: Roy Domenico, The University of Scranton

Papers:

• Kyra Krzyicki, The University of Scranton, “Saint Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and Human Trafficking.”
• Maggie Kowalewski, The University of Scranton, “Large Industrial Farming and Fear for Animals and the Environment.”
• Adrianna Smith, The University of Scranton, “Examining Descartes’ work in the “Meditations on First Philosophy.”

PANEL 2:  “The American Church”

Chair: TBA

Papers:

• Paul Miller, SUNY Empire State College, “An Errand into the Socialist Wilderness: John Cort and the DSA’s Religious and Socialist Commission.”
• Madeline Gambino, Princeton University, “Age/Aging and Change in Contemporary Philadelphia.”
• Mitchell Edward Oxford, William and Mary, “’The Cradle of Bishops” in Infancy: John Dubois, Simon Bruté, and the Making of Mount Saint Mary’s University.”

PANEL 3:  “Catholic Women”

Chair: TBA

Papers:

• Mary Henold, Roanoke College, “The Assistant Mistress-at-Arms Gets her Due: Acknowledgement of the Varieties of Catholic laywomen’s labor in the Catholic Transcript, 1925-1927.”
• Dennis Castillo, Christ the King Seminary, “The Sisters of Charity and the 1832 Cholera Pandemic.”
• Elisabeth C. Davis, The University at Buffalo,” “’The Appearance of a Schism:’ The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Catholic Consolidation.”

Friday, April 22
11:00 AM

PANEL 4:  “America Meets the World”

Chair: TBA

Papers:

• Emily Alesia Poteat, Villanova University, “‘A weapon which will be unique’: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs on Japan during World War II.”                                                                                                           
• Marjorie Corbman, Molloy College, “’A Cultured Man’: Emma Goldman’s Prison Chaplain and the Transnational Cultures of Turn-of-the-Century New York Catholicism.
• Jean McManus, Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame, “Using Local Primary Sources in Exploring Global Catholicism.”

PANEL 5:  “Gender and Religious Polemic: Reserarching Early Modern Catholic Women.”

Chair and Discussant: Ralph Keen, The University of Illinois – Chicago 

Papers:

• Dr. Jessica L. Keene, Georgian Court University, “Keeping their ‘fyrste faythe’: Vows and Former Nuns in Reformation England.”
• Elissa Cutter, Georgian Court University, “The Power of Naming: Gender and Heresy in Polemics Against the Port-Royal Nuns.”
• Richard Yoder, Penn State University, “Les Pierres de Scandale: Jacqueline-Aimée Brohon and Her Revolutionary Reception.”

PANEL 6:  “Rooting the Mystical Body: How Lived Experience Grounds Doctrine.”

Chair: Bill Portier, The University of Dayton
Discussant: Sandra Yocum, The University of Dayton

Papers:

• Kathy Stout, The University of Dayton, “In the Rubble of War, A Little Flower: How Thérèse Conquered the Oriental Heart of John C. H. Wu.”
• Annie Huey, The University of Dayton, “A Mother’s Best Uniform”: Katherine Burton’s Call to Women During World War II.”
• Sr. Laura Coughlin,  The University of Dayton, “The Grounding of “Creative Peace” – Luigi Sturzo Confronts the Weakness of League Members.”

Friday, April 22
2:00 PM

PANEL 7: “American Catholic Social Issues.”

Chair: James Carroll, Iona College

Papers:

• Luke Sullivan, Villanova University, “Interdict: The Significance of Censure in Catholic Trusteeism Disputes.”
• Jeanne Petit, Hope College, “National Ambitions, Local Realities: Catholic Laywomen and the East St. Louis National Catholic Community House.”
• Mary B. Carney, SUNY at Fredonia, “Conning Capitalists and Catholics: The “Frenzied” Financing of the Fidelity Funding Company, 1905-1909.”

PANEL 8: “Ethnic Groups and National Stories” 

Chair: TBA

Papers:                                                                                                                              

• Conor Joseph Donnan, The University of Pennsylvania, “A Spiritual Empire: Irish Catholics, Native Americans, and Religion in the American West between 1850 and 1910.”
• Carl Ganz, Independent Scholar, “Religious and Political Conflict among the Early Irish Catholics of Elizabeth, N.J.”

PANEL 9: Theological Issues – Augustine and Newman

Chair: Robert Shaffern, The University of Scranton

Papers:

• Michael J. Petrin, Marywood University, “Augustine and the Holy Spirit between East and West.”                                                                                                        
• Elizabeth A. Huddleston, National Institute for Newman Studies, “Newman’s Self-Reflection: A Reexamination.”

Saturday, April 23
9:00 AM

PANEL 10: “CATHOLICS AND EDUCATION”

Chair: Charles Strauss, Mount St Mary’s University

Papers:

• Dennis J. Wiebolt III, Boston College, “The Roman Faith at an American Law School: Pre-Vatican II Reconciliation between Catholicism and the American Legal Tradition at Boston College.”
• Katherine Ward, The University of Notre Dame, “The Formation of Identity and Culture in Native American Catholic Schools.”
• James Carroll, Iona College, “Education and Indigenous Peoples: A Transnational Perspective.”

PANEL 11: Postwar European Catholics: de Lubac and Ratzinger 

Chair: Robert Carbonneau, CP, The University of Scranton

Papers: 

• Jacob Saliba, Boston College, “Critical Catholicism: Henri de Lubac S.J. and the Notion of the Supernatural.”
• Christopher Bellitto, Kean University, “Benedict XVI’s Post-Papacy: Past, Present, and Future Lessons.”

Saturday, April 23
11:00 AM

PANEL 12: War and Cold War 

Chair: Sean Brennan, The University of Scranton

Papers: 

• Eileen Groth Lyon, SUNY Fredonia, “Faith, Identity, and Community – Rosaries in the Nazi Concentration Camps.”
• Benjamin Peters, The University of Saint Joseph, “Why the 60th anniversary Gordon Zahn’s German Catholics and Hitler’s Wars matters.”
• Arpad von Klimo, The Catholic University of America, “Anticommunism, Decolonization and the Vatican: Cardinal Mindszenty in Portugal.”

PANEL 13: Panel 11, Early Modern Europe 

Chair: Paul Sampson, The University of Scranton

Papers: 

• Xavier Marechaux, SUNY College at Old Westbury, “The Dechristianization of Year II, A Real threat or Just a Bust? Analyzing 40 Years of Historiography on the Topic.”
• James A. Alfano, Villanova University, “Words of Wonder and Contempt: Tracing “Otherness” in British Travel Literature across the “Imagined Orient.”
• Ralph Keen, University of Illinois Chicago, “Early-Modern Catholicism within and alongside the Reformation: Teaching the Tension between Tradition and Confrontation.”