Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays pays tribute to Monsignor Robert Trisco, a dedicated historian, teacher, and priest at the Catholic University of America and the longtime editor of theCatholic Historical Review. Presenting the work of some of the finest scholars of U.S. Catholic history, the essays offer intriguing insights into topics ranging from spirituality and the intellectual life to the Church's relationship with the U.S. government and the Church's own internal organizational development. Many of the contributors address topical issues in the history of the American Church, such as preaching in the early days, slavery and the Catholic Church, disciplinary issues, and higher education. A number of the articles highlight important events and individuals that have often escaped scholarly consideration in standard texts on U.S. Catholic history.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are: Earl Boyea, Rory Conley, Joseph Chinnici, O.F.M., Robert Emmett Curran, S.J., Gerald Fogarty, S.J., Philip Gleason, Christopher Kauffman, Charles O'Neill, S.J., Thomas Shelley, Douglas Slawson, and Thomas Spalding, C.F.X. Cardinal William H. Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore, provides a foreword to the volume.
Joseph C. Linck, C.O., campus chaplain at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and Chatham College, is a lecturer in church history at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Raymond Kupke is archivist for the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, teaches church history at Immaculate Conception Seminary, and is pastor of Holy Family Parish in Florham Park.
Sample articles:
Biographical Sketch of Msgr. Robert TriscoRome, the American Church, and SlaveryCatholics in the Land of Billy the KidWine for the Gods: Negotiations for the Sacramental Use of Alcohol during ProhibitionTraditions of Priestly Identity and Spirituality in the United States""[A] well researched and highly intriguing series of articles on facets of the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, compiled in [Mons. Robert F. Trisco's] honour by his former students and present colleagues.""--L'Osservatore Romano
""This volume of twelve essays is offered as an appreciation of the scholarly and priestly career of Monsignor Robert F. Trisco. It is, in fact, a fitting gesture toward an individual who has contributed a great deal to American Catholic historiography, whether as secretary-treasurer of the American Catholic Historical Association or editor of itsCatholic Historical Review, whether as teacher or scholar in his own right. . . . As Monsignor Trisco has contributed to America Catholic historical studies, so, too, does the present volume offered in his honor. It is a fitting recognition of his graceful working out of his priestly and scholarly vocation.""--Catholic Southwest
""The publication of these articles, a veritable 'garden of delights', renders a fitting memorial to a priest and professor who has served the Church tirelessly by supporting scholarship in his teaching and in his work.""--Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.,Catholic Historical Review
