The history of the Catholic Church and its schools in the United States is primarily a history of bishops' and priests' actions. Chapter 1 describes this history in terms of Catholic schools: (1) prior to the Constitutional convention; (2) during controversial periods from 1885-1917; (3) in U.S. society from 1918-1964; and (4) relationships to…

Provides a skeletal account of the complex, rich, controversial, struggling, upward mobile, fascinating journey of Catholic education. Outlines 500 years of Catholic educational development in America in a historical timeline, beginning with Columbus's discovery of Watling Island in the Bahamas in 1492 and continuing through the celebration of the…

Offers a brief history of Louisiana, highlighting the establishment of Catholic schools by missionaries before the development of public schools. Covers the French and Spanish, and Black Catholics in Louisiana, the Code Noir and the missionary church, the beginning of public schooling, north Louisianan schools, and the civil war. (DMM)

This is an examination of how Catholics adapted to the United States and how American culture affected Catholicism during the twentieth century based on an investigation of major developments in Catholic higher education since World War I with emphasis on colleges and universities conducted by the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits. The opening chapter…

Protestant and Catholic missionary organizations contributed to the development of American schooling. On the Protestant side, the American Home Missionary Society and the American Sunday School Union provided missionaries who frequently became active in school activities. More importantly, these agencies, typical of the evangelical alliance of…

This textbook is a second reader for Catholic children. The contents include age-appropriate stories and passages on the importance of emphasis, consonant sounds, marked letters, and punctuation marks. A list of Roman and Arabic numbers is also included.

The Catholic educational system of the New York Archdiocese has emerged through a series of crises and conflicts to become one of the most extensive educational systems in the country. It initially gained a foothold in New York during the administrations of the first three bishops of New York and expanded under Archbishop John Hughes. Hughes, at…

The "Educational Directory" is released in four parts as rapidly as the data become available. This bulletin, the second part of the 1935 educational directory published by the Office of Education, focuses on city school officers. It contains the following: (1) Principal City School Officers; and (2) Superintendents of Catholic Parochial Schools.…

Flaws in the literature regarding the use of schools by German Roman Catholics in Western Canada as vehicles to perpetuate the German language and Catholic religion are pointed out and corrected. The educational system in St. Peter's colony was not uniform, as portrayed by many scholars, but pluralistic. Three types of schools were in use--two…

Traces the contributions of Black Roman Catholic nuns to Black education in the United States since the early 1800s. Also shows that, despite declining membership, the three existing religious orders continue to be active in Black education and social change. (GC)

Argues that, although education was an important objective of the missions in Africa, the rapid expansion of education in southern Nigeria between 1885 and 1932 was actually the accidental outcome of missionary and Catholic Church rivalry, rather than the result of an altruistic policy to expand educational opportunities for Africans. (AF)

Joining African religion with Catholicism, women of northeastern Brazil re-enact century-old ceremonies. When forced to practice Catholicism, Afro-Brazilians assimilated their concepts of forces into the belief in Christian saints. Sisterhoods and brotherhoods in Brazil were underground manifestations of religions native to Africa. (VM)

Roman Catholic schools in the United States have made significant contributions which include the first schools in many geographic areas, the first textbook in the United States, and the first dictionaries of some Indian languages. Early attempts to establish Catholic schools led to incidents which required heroism of the leaders and sacrifices by…

In North Dakota during 1948, the Committee for Separation of Church and State succeeded in passing an "anti-garb" initiative, which targeted Catholic nuns who taught in public schools because of a teacher shortage. The committee protested the wearing of the religious habit claiming it had a religious influence on students. (KS)

Reports made to the Office of Education by State departments of education show an enrollment of 21,278,593 children in elementary schools during 1929-30. Between two and three million other children attend private elementary schools. Estimates for the year 1929-30 put the total private elementary school enrollment at 2,255,430. The Department of…