Together with my co-editors,
Mary Beth Fraser Connolly and
Christopher Denny, I am pleased to announce that Fordham University Press will be publishing our
Empowering the People of God: Catholic Action before and after Vatican II. Composed of eleven essays dealing with a wide range of topics ranging from the Catholic Club of New York City and postwar Italian-American Catholic Action to the Extension Lay Volunteers and the National Council of Catholic Women, our volume has already received very positive feedback from the readers assigned by Fordham.
A panel discussion by some of our contributors is scheduled for next year's American Catholic History Association meeting:
Outgrowing Catholic Action? Transforming the Parochial Identity of American Lay Apostolates in the Vatican II Generation
Sunday, January 6, 2013: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall, Studio 1
Chair:
Patrick Hayes, Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province, Brooklyn, New York
Papers:
John Courtney Murray’s Justification for American Lay Catholic Movements
Christopher Denny, Saint John's University
Azzione Cattolica in an American Setting: The Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians and Catholic Action
Mary Elizabeth Brown, Marymount Manhattan College
Relevant Transformations: The Young Women of the Extension Lay Volunteers, 1961–71
Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University
Reaching Out to the People of God: The Implications of Renewal for the Sisters of Mercy in
Parochial Education
Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, Valparaiso University
Comment:
Leslie W. Tentler, Catholic University of America
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