Commonwealth Catholicism

by Fogarty, Gerald P.

• ISBN13: 9780268022648
• ISBN10: 026802264X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
Introduction	xxi
PART I Creating Catholic Space in a Protestant Wilderness	1	(188)
Catholicism in Colonial Virginia	5	(18)
The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia	6	(2)
Virginia as an English Colony	8	(11)
The American Revolution and Virginia's Catholics	19	(4)
Post-Revolutionary Virginia Catholicism	23	(16)
Virginia Culture in the Early Republic	24	(1)
Jean Dubois in Richmond	24	(3)
The Origins of Martinsburg and Alexandria	27	(2)
Richmond on the Eve of Becoming a Diocese: 1811--1820	29	(4)
Rise of Trusteeism in Norfolk	33	(6)
Richmond Becomes a Diocese, 1820	39	(19)
The Trustee Legation to Rome	39	(2)
The Movement Toward Making Richmond a Diocese	41	(2)
Norfolk Trustees Call Carbry as Pastor	43	(2)
Appointment of Patrick Kelly as First Bishop of Richmond	45	(3)
Kelly's Sojourn in Norfolk	48	(4)
Kelly Is Transferred to Waterford and Lismore	52	(1)
Bishop Kelly's Final Report on the Diocese of Richmond	53	(2)
A Corollary to Lay Trusteeism: Clerical Trusteeism in Alexandria	55	(1)
Marechal's Views on the Nomination of Bishops	56	(2)
A Diocese without a Bishop, 1821--1841	58	(22)
Richmond Reverts to the Archbishop of Baltimore	58	(1)
Richmond's Quest for a Permanent Pastor	59	(10)
Development of Norfolk and Portsmouth	69	(4)
The North and West	73	(7)
Second Bishop of Richmond: 1841--1850	80	(19)
Richard Vincent Whelan
Plans for a Seminary in Richmond	81	(2)
Recruitment of Seminarians from All Hallows	83	(2)
Whelan's Hopes for the West: The Floyds of Tazewell	85	(3)
Canals and Railroads: The Beginnings of Lynchburg and Staunton	88	(3)
Whelan's Mission to Wheeling	91	(2)
Richmond: The Founding of St. Mary's Parish for Germans	93	(6)
Division of Richmond and Wheeling, 1850: John McGill, Richmond's Third Bishop	99	(20)
Division of Wheeling and Richmond	99	(2)
John McGill, Richmond's Third Bishop	101	(1)
Distribution of the All Hallows Priests	102	(2)
McGill Comes to Richmond and O'Brien Leaves	104	(4)
McGill's Role in the Appointment of Kenrick as Archbishop of Baltimore	108	(3)
McGill Outlines His Plans for European Benefactors, 1852	111	(2)
Matthew O'Keefe Takes Charge in Norfolk	113	(2)
Getting a Priest for Petersburg	115	(4)
The Diocese on the Eve of the Civil War	119	(23)
Plans to Make Washington a Diocese	119	(2)
Know-Nothings in Virginia	121	(4)
McGill as Apologist against the Know-Nothings	125	(2)
The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Norfolk, 1855	127	(1)
The Founding of St. Vinecent's Hospital	128	(3)
O'Keefe Builds His New Church	131	(1)
The First Synod of Richmond	132	(1)
Problems with Clerical Discipline	133	(3)
Convert Priests and the Teeling Law	136	(1)
Alexandria Becomes Part of the Diocese of Richmond	137	(2)
Storm Clouds of War	139	(3)
The Civil War: Virginia's Catholics Rally to the Cause	142	(22)
The Bishops on the Eve of the War	142	(6)
Virginia's Catholics Go to War	148	(4)
Chaplains, Confederate and Union	152	(10)
Confederate Overtures to Pius IX	162	(2)
Nursing on the Battlefield and a Diocese Divided by War	164	(25)
The Daughters of Charity in Military Hospitals	164	(6)
The Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy in Montgomery White Sulphur springs	170	(6)
Pastoral Life in a Diocese Divided by War	176	(2)
Choosing the Archbishop of Baltimore	178	(1)
McGill's Efforts to Visit Rome	179	(2)
Parish Life in Richmond during the Civil War	181	(3)
The End of the Confederacy	184	(2)
McGill's Postwar Report to Rome	186	(3)
PART II Post-Reconstruction Catholicism Takes Root	189	(148)
The Diocese Faces Reconstruction	193	(20)
McGill as Apologist	193	(2)
Adjusting to Reconstruction	195	(1)
The Second Plenary Council	196	(2)
Dealing with the Priest Shortage and Recruitment from Louvain	198	(2)
New Religious Orders of Women	200	(1)
The New Diocese of Wilmington and the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina	201	(1)
Reconstruction in Virginia and the Rise of a Catholic Elite	202	(6)
The First Vatican Council	208	(1)
Janssens Befriends Colonel Mosby in Warrenton	209	(1)
Evangelizing the Valley	210	(1)
McGill's Last Days	211	(2)
Fourth Bishop of Richmond, 1872--1877	213	(24)
James Gibbons
Gibbons Chosen as Richmond's Fourth Bishop	214	(3)
Gibbons's Central Administration	217	(1)
Gibbons Americanizes Seminary Education	218	(2)
O'Keefe and Gibbons as Apologists	220	(2)
Gibbons and His Problem Priests: Virginia and North Carolina	222	(3)
Gibbons's First Attempt to Work with African Americans	225	(3)
The Life of a Missionary Bishop in Postbellum Virginia	228	(1)
New Schools and Other Institutions	229	(2)
The Donation of Belmont Abbey	231	(1)
First Signs of Growth in Falls Church and Fairfax	232	(1)
Lay Organizations, Temperance, and Parish Missions	233	(4)
Gibbons Achieves National Recognition	237	(15)
Janssens Considered as Rector of the American College, Louvain	237	(3)
Gibbons's Involvement in the Selection of Bishops	240	(3)
Kain's Attempt to Realign Diocesan with State Lines	243	(3)
Gibbons Becomes Archbishop of Baltimore	246	(6)
Richmond's Fifth Bishop, 1878--1888	252	(16)
John J. Keane
Choosing Gibbons's Successor	252	(1)
Keane's Administration	253	(2)
Education in the Diocese	255	(1)
Vicariate of North Carolina Separated from Richmond	256	(3)
Janssens Appointed Bishop of Natchez	259	(1)
Seminary Education	260	(1)
Annual Meetings of the Clergy	261	(4)
Keane and the Development of Lay Spirituality	265	(3)
Pastoral Life during Keane's Episcopate	268	(16)
Down the Shenandoath Valley and East	268	(2)
Roanoke Becomes the Center of the Valley	270	(3)
Missionary Priests of the Northwest	273	(3)
The Keileyville Colony	276	(2)
Keane's First Work among Black Virginians	278	(6)
Richmond: A Diocese in Transition, 1883--1888	284	(16)
Preparations for the Council	284	(2)
The Third Plenary Council	286	(2)
Keane Named Rector of the Catholic University of America	288	(1)
Keane and Terence Powderly of the Knights of Labor	289	(1)
Keane's Stay in Rome: Issues Dividing the American Hierarchy	290	(3)
O'Keefe Forced to Leave Norfolk	293	(4)
Keane's Resignation as Bishop of Richmond	297	(3)
Augustine van de Vyver: Pastoral Life in the Diocese of Richmond, 1889--1911	300	(18)
Opposition of Gibbons and Keane to van de Vyver as Bishop	300	(4)
Van de Vyver's Diocesan Administration	304	(1)
Van de Vyver and Gibbons	304	(1)
Richmond's Connection with Americanism	305	(3)
Van de Vyver Again Recruits from Louvain	308	(1)
Amadeus Joseph van Ingelgem	309	(2)
Falls Church and Beyond: The First Development of Northern Virginia	311	(1)
Newport News and Norfolk	312	(1)
Sisters in Norfolk and at the Medical College of Virginia	313	(1)
Virginia's Immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe	314	(1)
Mines and Railroads in the Allegheny Highlands	315	(1)
Benedictines in Norton, Bristol, and Pocahontas	316	(2)
Benefactors of the Diocese and the Drexels' Work with African Americans	318	(19)
African Americans and the Josephites	318	(3)
Keswick and Katharine Drexel	321	(3)
St. Emma's and St. Francis in Rock Castle	324	(5)
Benedictine Schools at Bristow	329	(1)
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart and Thomas Fortune Ryan	330	(4)
Van de Vyver's Last Years	334	(3)
PART III Keeping the Faith in a Changing Environment	337	(178)
Denis O'Connell as Bishop: The Diocese and Virginia Culture, 1911--1926	339	(18)
Choosing a Successor to van de Vyver	339	(3)
Benedictines Cease Pastoral Work in Bristow and Warrenton	342	(1)
Benedictine College and St. Gertrude's High School	343	(2)
Seminaries and Recruitment of Priests	345	(2)
World War I and the Development of Norfolk	347	(2)
The Ku Klux Klan and Anti-Catholicism	349	(1)
Virginia Catholics and Patriotism	350	(1)
The Ku Klux Klan and the Bogus Oath of the Knights of Columbus	351	(6)
Virginia's First Suburban Growth, 1915--1924	357	(21)
Richmond's First Suburbs	357	(2)
Northern Virginia's First Growth after World War I: Clarendon and Cherrydale	359	(1)
Missionary Journeys from Falls Church	360	(1)
Fairfax Gets a Resident Pastor	361	(1)
Missions from Fairfax to Charlottesville Along the Railroad	361	(2)
The High Cost of a Benefactor: Conflict with Ryan	363	(2)
Falls Church and Beyond in Northern Virginia	365	(1)
Alexandria and St. Rita's	366	(3)
A Gift from the Episcopal Diocese and Smet's Return to Belgium	369	(1)
Expansion in Hampton Roads	370	(1)
Birth of a Parish in Virginia Beach	370	(3)
Ocean View	373	(2)
Blessed Sacrament	375	(3)
Evangelization in the Country and City	378	(18)
Small Parishes Replace Roving Missionaries	378	(2)
Crewe: A Rural Mission Center	380	(1)
The Shenandoath Valley from Roanoke to Harrisonburg	381	(2)
Immigrants in Virginia after World War I	383	(1)
O'Connell's Recruitment for Immigrants	384	(1)
Maronites	384	(2)
Ruthenians	386	(1)
Poles	387	(1)
Jakubowski at West Point	388	(2)
The Saga of Bowers Hill	390	(2)
Hungarians Near Suffolk	392	(1)
A City in Transition: Death of ``Major'' Dooley	393	(1)
Retirement of Archbishop Denis O'Connell	394	(2)
Bishop Andrew Brennan and Civil Life in Virginia, 1926--1934	396	(19)
Appointment of Andrew J. Brennan	396	(1)
Diocesan Administration	397	(2)
Recruiting Seminarians and Priests	399	(1)
Roman Concern for Native Vocations in Virginia	400	(2)
Priests Recruit Seminarians	402	(1)
Brennan Attempts to Reconcile a ``Fallen Christ''	403	(2)
The Diocese Begins The Catholic Virginian	405	(1)
The Presidential Campaign of 1928	405	(2)
Formation of the Laymen's League	407	(3)
Virginia Catholics Show Their Patriotism	410	(2)
Early Ecumenical Contacts	412	(3)
Social Outreach and the Depression	415	(21)
Founding of Catholic Charities	415	(3)
The Dedication of St. Joseph's Villa	418	(4)
The Barry-Robinson Home for Boys, Norfolk	422	(2)
Expansion and New Parishes	424	(1)
Williamsburg's Parish Begins as Cardinal Gibbons Center	425	(2)
Charlottesville and the University of Virginia	427	(2)
Blacksburg: The Virginia Polytechnic Institute	429	(2)
The Depression: Phase I, a Building Spree	431	(1)
The Depression: Phase II, Economic Crisis	432	(1)
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia	433	(3)
Peter L. Ireton as Coadiutor, 1935--1940	436	(18)
Brennan Suffers a Stroke and Ireton Becomes Coadjutor	436	(2)
Ireton's Diocesan Administration	438	(1)
Diocesan Structure and Intellectual Outreach	439	(2)
Ireton's State of the Diocese Address in 1936	441	(1)
Evangelizing Rural Virginia: David Goldstein's Campaign	442	(2)
The Diocesan Mission Band	444	(4)
Ireton and Prewar Urban Catholicism	448	(2)
The Threat of Communism, Mexico, and the Spanish Civil War	450	(4)
Virginia Catholics in War and Peace	454	(19)
Adjustments in the Diocese on the Eve of the War	454	(2)
Virginia Catholics Prepare for War	456	(1)
Pearl Harbor and Richmond's Chaplains	457	(1)
The Effects of Government Expansion on Virginia	458	(1)
Parish Life in Wartime Virginia	459	(2)
Prisoners of War in Virginia	461	(2)
Catholic Efforts on the Domestic Front	463	(2)
Brennan Resigns as Bishop and Virginia Returns to Peacetime Activities	465	(1)
Postwar Growth	466	(3)
Postwar Pastoral Issues: Refugee Resettlement	469	(1)
Virginia, a Field Ripe for Conversions	469	(1)
Ireton's Style of Leadership in Interfaith Matters	470	(1)
Continuation of the Catholic Community Service Clubs	471	(2)
Postwar Population Explosion Hits Virginia	473	(18)
Seminary Recruitment	474	(1)
Recruitment of Religious Orders	474	(1)
Postwar Growth of Northern Virginia	475	(3)
Postwar Development of the Peninsula	478	(1)
Postwar Development in Tidewater and Richmond	479	(1)
Slow Development in the City of Richmond	479	(1)
New Educational Institutions	480	(1)
Catholic Hospitals	481	(1)
``Muscular Catholicism'' Comes to Virginia	482	(3)
Ireton's Jubilee and the Jubilee of the Cathedral, 1956	485	(2)
Beginning of Liturgical Renewal	487	(4)
African Americans in the Diocese of Richmond from World War I to Integration	491	(24)
Josephite Work under O'Connell	491	(4)
The Question of a Black Priest for Richmond	495	(2)
Work of Diocesan Priests with African Americans: Our Lady of Victory	497	(2)
Josephite Work during the Depression	499	(2)
First Rumblings of Racial Justice	501	(1)
The Catholic Committee on the South and Paul Williams	502	(2)
Interracial Work in the Diocese of Richmond	504	(1)
New Parishes for African Americans	505	(3)
The Diocese Moves Toward Integration	508	(7)
PART IV The Shaping of Contemporary Virginia Catholicism	515	(31)
The Council, and Integration, 1958--1968	517	(23)
John J. Russell
John J. Russell	518	(1)
Election of John XXIII and Preparations for the Second Vatican Council	518	(4)
Election of Paul VI and the Continuation of the Council	522	(1)
Implementing the Council: The Fourth Synod of Richmond	523	(2)
St. John Vianney Seminary	525	(1)
High Schools	526	(1)
St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond	527	(1)
Systematic Fund-Raising	528	(1)
Bishop Russell and the Integration of Parishes	529	(3)
The Diocese of Richmond and Civil Rights	532	(5)
Integration of the Knights of Columbus	537	(3)
``The Storied Land of Power Mower and Charcoal Cookout''	540	(6)
Expansion in Northern Virginia	540	(2)
Development of Other Regions of Virginia	542	(2)
Movement Toward Establishing the Diocese of Arlington	544	(1)
Overview of the Growth of the Diocese of Richmond, 1974--1997	545	(1)
Conclusion	546	(5)
Abbreviations	551	(2)
Notes	553	(70)
Bibliography	623	(10)
Index	633