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Book The Encyclopedia of New York State

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York State written by Peter Eisenstadt and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 1960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Book Annual Report of the New York Catholic Protectory to the Legislature of the State  and to the Common Council of the City

Download or read book Annual Report of the New York Catholic Protectory to the Legislature of the State and to the Common Council of the City written by New York Catholic Protectory and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sons of Saint Patrick

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  • Author : George Marlin
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2017-01-12
  • ISBN : 1681497506
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Sons of Saint Patrick written by George Marlin and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sons of Saint Patrick tells the story of America's premiere Catholic see, the archdiocese of New York—from the coming of French Jesuit priests in the seventeenth century to the early years of Cardinal Timothy Dolan. It includes many intriguing facets of the history of Catholicism in New York, including: the early persecution of and legal discrimination against Catholics the waves of catholic immigrants, most notably from Ireland the Church's rise to power under New York's first archbishop, "Dagger" John Hughes the emerging awareness in the Vatican of New York's preeminence the clashes between America and Rome over the "Americanist" heresy the role New York's archbishops have played in the life of America's greatest city—and in the world The book focuses on the ten archbishops of New York and shows how they became the indispensable partners of governors and presidents, especially during the war-torn twentieth century. Also discussed are the struggles of the most recent archbishops in the face of demographic changes, financial crises, and clerical sex-abuse cases. Sons of Saint Patrick is an objective but colorful portrait of ten extraordinary men—men who were saints and sinners, politicians and pastors, and movers and shakers who as much as any other citizens have made New York one of the greatest cities in the world. All ten archbishops have been Irish, either by birth or heritage, but given New York's changing ethnic profile, Cardinal Timothy Dolan may be the last son of Saint Patrick to serve as its archbishop.

Book The Catholic Church in New York

Download or read book The Catholic Church in New York written by John Talbot Smith and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1905 and written as an official chronology of the Diocese of New York then one of the powerhouse regions of the Catholic Church in America, as the Archdiocese of New York is today this two-volume work remains an important document of the Church. Useful in both the historical and cultural dimensions, this highly readable but powerfully biased account reveals the prejudices and partialities of the time as filtered through the viewpoint of one of its most influential institutions. Volume I explores: the first Catholics in the State of New York the early years of the organization in the state the first bishop and early administration anti-Catholicism and the Knownothing Party the growth of the parishes politics and Catholicism and much more. American clergyman and author REV. JOHN TALBOT SMITH (1855 1923) also wrote The Training of a Priest, The Chaplain Sermons, and other religious works, as well as the novels Woman of Culture (1882) and Solitary Island (1888).

Book Catholic New York City

Download or read book Catholic New York City written by Richard Panchyk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic New York City celebrates the religious and cultural life f one of the largest Catholic populations in the world. The first Catholic church was founded in the 1780s, and the diocese was subsequently founded in 1808, when there were only a few priests in the entire state. The 1879 completion of the countrys best-known Catholic church, St. Patricks Cathedral, was a crowning moment in New York Citys Catholic history. Between 1850 and 1900, the Catholic population of New York City grew from 200,000 to more than 1.2 million due to a tremendous influx of Irish, German, Italian, Polish, and other European immigrants. Throughout the last 200 years, the city has been home to a wide range of fascinating Catholic personalities, places, and events.

Book Neighbors and Missionaries

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  • Author : Margaret M. McGuinness
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2015-07-01
  • ISBN : 0823266222
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Neighbors and Missionaries written by Margaret M. McGuinness and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine community was founded in 1910 by marion gurney, who adopted the religious name Mother Marianne of Jesus. A graduate of Wellesley College and a convert to Catholicism, Gurney had served as head resident at St. Rose’s Settlement, the first Catholic settlement house in New York City. She founded the Sisters of Christian Doctrine when other communities of women religious appeared uninterested in a ministry of settlement work combined with religious education programs for children attending public schools. The community established two settlement houses in New York City—Madonna House on the Lower East Side in 1910, followed by Ave Maria House in the Bronx in 1930. Alongside their classes in religious education and preparing children and adults to receive the sacraments, the Sisters distributed food and clothing, operated a bread line, and helped their neighbors in emergencies. In 1940 Mother Marianne and the Sisters began their first major mission outside New York when they adapted the model of the urban Catholic social settlement to rural South Carolina. They also served at a number of parishes, including several in South Carolina and Florida, where they ministered to both black and white Catholics. In Neighbors and Missionaries, Margaret M. McGuinness, who was given full access to the archives of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, traces in fascinating detail the history of the congregation, from the inspiring story of its founder and the community’s mission to provide material and spiritual support to their Catholic neighbors, to the changes and challenges of the latter half of the twentieth century. By 1960, settlement houses had been replaced by other forms of social welfare, and the lives and work of American women religious were undergoing a dramatic change. McGuinness explores how the Sisters of Christian Doctrine were affected and how they adapted their own lives and work to reflect the transformations taking place in the Church and society. Neighbors and Missionaries examines a distinctive community of women religious whose primary focus was neither teaching nor nursing/hospital administration. The choice of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to live among the poor and to serve where other communities were either unwilling or unable demonstrates that women religious in the United States served in many different capacities as they contributed to the life and work of the American Catholic Church.

Book Governing New York State

Download or read book Governing New York State written by Jeffrey M. Stonecash and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Governing New York State (formerly New York State Today) provides the latest on New York State politics, government, and public policies. The text is two-thirds new material. Covered for the first time are racial politics in New York, political conflict, the press, tax policy, environmental issues, and transportation policy. While continuing to provide a comprehensive introduction to New York State politics and government, the third edition contains fewer, more in-depth articles.

Book A History of the Foundations of Catholicism in Northern New York

Download or read book A History of the Foundations of Catholicism in Northern New York written by United States Catholic Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Ethnic New York

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  • Author : Joshua M. Zeitz
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011-09-01
  • ISBN : 0807872806
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book White Ethnic New York written by Joshua M. Zeitz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of postwar American politics often identify race as a driving force in the dynamically shifting political culture. Joshua Zeitz instead places religion and ethnicity at the fore, arguing that ethnic conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had a decisive impact on the shape of liberal politics long before black-white racial identity politics entered the political lexicon. Understanding ethnicity as an intersection of class, national origins, and religion, Zeitz demonstrates that the white ethnic populations of New York had significantly diverging views on authority and dissent, community and individuality, secularism and spirituality, and obligation and entitlement. New York Jews came from Eastern European traditions that valued dissent and encouraged political agitation; their Irish and Italian Catholic neighbors tended to value commitment to order, deference to authority, and allegiance to church and community. Zeitz argues that these distinctions ultimately helped fracture the liberal coalition of the Roosevelt era, as many Catholics bolted a Democratic Party increasingly focused on individual liberties, and many dissent-minded Jews moved on to the antiliberal New Left.

Book The Immigrant Church

Download or read book The Immigrant Church written by Jay P. Dolan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A view of urban Catholicism, The Immigrant Church focuses on the people in the pews and furnishes a comparison of Irish and German Catholic life in mid-nineteenth-century New York City. Nearly one-half of the city's population in 1865 consisted of Irish and German Catholics. Singling out three parishes (one Irish, one German, and one a mixed group of Germans and Irish), Dolan examines the role of religion in strengthening group life in these ethnic communities, traces the development of the Catholic Church in the city, and reveals the relationship between urban and church growth.

Book To Whom Shall We Go

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  • Author : Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan
  • Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
  • Release : 2008-12-04
  • ISBN : 1612781195
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book To Whom Shall We Go written by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2008-12-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be a Christian today, to follow Our Lord and accept His call to discipleship, demands heroic courage. It takes deep faith to live the particular - special, unique - vocation that's yours alone. Heaven knows it isn't easy. St. Peter knows it, too. He's well aware that even the most enthusiastic and committed Christian can become frightened and unsure, can make mistakes and betray a loved one, can seek and receive forgiveness, can begin again and - with an even stronger faith - can go on to face life's most difficult challenges. To Whom Shall We Go? presents the words and actions of St. Peter as it clearly shows how his life - his strengths, weaknesses, joys, and sorrows - offers an example for all of us. How it offers hope for each of us.

Book Catholics in New York

Download or read book Catholics in New York written by Terry Golway and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the history, growth, and extraordinary legacy of New York's largest Christian denomination. Co-published with the Museum of the City of New York as a companion to its exhibition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Archdiocese of New York, this book brings together rare images and original essays to explore the key dimensions of the Catholic experience in New York. Here is a fascinating pictorial record of Catholic struggles and triumphs, and thirteen insightful essays that trace the story of Catholic New York--from people, parishes, and traditions to the schools, hospitals, and other institutions that helped shape the metropolis. The struggles of generations of immigrants and their descendents against prejudice bear fruit in the remarkable ascendance of Catholics in the city's politics. From the emblematic account of one Manhattan parish's life across generations of neighborhood change to fresh perspectives on the extraordinary impact of Catholic institutional life on the making of the city, the essays range widely. There's a personal refl ection by Pete Hamill on growing up Catholic as well as revealing explorations of the Catholic presence in all corners of New York's social, political, cultural, and educational worlds. Catholic leaders such as Dorothy Day, Al Smith, and Mother Cabrini come to life in other essays. An afterword offers a look at Catholic New York facing new realities of race, ethnic change, and suburbanization after World War II. Blending memorable images with insightful commentary, Catholics in New York tells not just the story of the city's largest community of faith, but offers a new telling of what is for everyone a classic New York story.

Book The Code of Canon Law

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 9789392340642
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Code of Canon Law written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire State Catholics

Download or read book Empire State Catholics written by Thomas J. Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Catholic Encyclopedia written by Charles Herbermann and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laudato Si

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  • Author : Pope Francis
  • Publisher : Our Sunday Visitor
  • Release : 2015-07-18
  • ISBN : 1612783872
  • Pages : 119 pages

Download or read book Laudato Si written by Pope Francis and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. He does not abandon us, he does not leave us alone, for he has united himself definitively to our earth, and his love constantly impels us to find new ways forward. Praise be to him!” – Pope Francis, Laudato Si’ In his second encyclical, Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home, Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home. We as human beings are united by the concern for our planet, and every living thing that dwells on it, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. Pope Francis’ letter joins the body of the Church’s social and moral teaching, draws on the best scientific research, providing the foundation for “the ethical and spiritual itinerary that follows.” Laudato Si’ outlines: The current state of our “common home” The Gospel message as seen through creation The human causes of the ecological crisis Ecology and the common good Pope Francis’ call to action for each of us Our Sunday Visitor has included discussion questions, making it perfect for individual or group study, leading all Catholics and Christians into a deeper understanding of the importance of this teaching.

Book History of the Catholic Church in Western New York  Diocese of Buffalo  Classic Reprint

Download or read book History of the Catholic Church in Western New York Diocese of Buffalo Classic Reprint written by Thomas Donohue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Catholic Church in Western New York, Diocese of Buffalo It was full time, therefore, that these early events should be recorded in permanent form, whilst there were still living witnesses to confirm or correct the early oral history of the Church in Western New York, before it became involved in the mist of unreliable memory, or perhaps passed into oblivion. The saintly Bishop Timon realized the importance of this work; and in the preface to his little work he says: Amidst occupations already almost excessive, it seemed wrong to attempt a work like this - when only interrupted moments, snatched from important and necessary duties, could be devoted to examining documents, written at various epochs, during hundreds of years. But the advice of respected friends, and the suggestion that, if not soon begun, future steps in this direction might be almost impossible, made us hesitate. Then, far advanced in the midnight vigil, or long before dawn of day, we strove to make a beginning; hoping that our labors might induce others who have time and talent to follow the glimpses that may open through these pages, and unfold the shadows which still rest 'round the dark and stormy past; and make it bright with evidence that in America, God protected the Church, and matured its fruits of love. Bishop Timon made a beginning, but he did not have the time to complete a work of such magnitude. The writer had collected material for some years, and had made notes for a history of the diocese, but without any definite purpose of prosecuting the work until he was requested to do the literary part of the work for a company already organized. The writer wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Archbishop Quigley, Bishop Colton and Father Connery, for encouragement; and to the priests of the diocese and the heads of institutions, for historical sketches and notes which rendered his task less toilsome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.