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Book St  Ann s Roman Catholic Church  Providence  Rhode Island

Download or read book St Ann s Roman Catholic Church Providence Rhode Island written by St. Ann's Church (Providence, R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Church in Rhode Island

Download or read book The Catholic Church in Rhode Island written by Thomas Francis Cullen and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Church in Newport  Rhode Island

Download or read book The Catholic Church in Newport Rhode Island written by John H. Greene and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations of Rhode Island

Download or read book Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations of Rhode Island written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Rhode Island and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ballots and Bibles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evelyn Savidge Sterne
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-31
  • ISBN : 1501717758
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Ballots and Bibles written by Evelyn Savidge Sterne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian workers. By 1905, more than half of its population was Catholic—Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life, most flagrantly by restricting voting rights. Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, Ballots and Bibles views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation. The Catholic Church must, Sterne concludes, be considered as powerful an engine for ethnic working-class activism from the 1880s until the 1930s as the labor union or the political machine.

Book The Italian Immigrant and the Roman Catholic Church in Rhode Island

Download or read book The Italian Immigrant and the Roman Catholic Church in Rhode Island written by Margaret M. Watkinson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Catholic Church in Rhode Island

Download or read book The Early Catholic Church in Rhode Island written by John Williams Haley and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholicism in Rhode Island

Download or read book Catholicism in Rhode Island written by Patrick T. Conley and published by Rhode Island Publications Society. This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rhode Island Historical Tracts

Download or read book Rhode Island Historical Tracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of Silence

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  • Author : Robert Sarah
  • Publisher : Ignatius Press
  • Release : 2017-03-30
  • ISBN : 1681497581
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Power of Silence written by Robert Sarah and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

Book History of the Catholic Church in Woonsocket and Vicinity

Download or read book History of the Catholic Church in Woonsocket and Vicinity written by James W. Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catholicism in Rhode Island and the Diocese of Providence 1921 1948

Download or read book Catholicism in Rhode Island and the Diocese of Providence 1921 1948 written by Robert W. Hayman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nothing Superfluous

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  • Author : James Jackson
  • Publisher : Sophia
  • Release : 2021-09-28
  • ISBN : 9781644135884
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Nothing Superfluous written by James Jackson and published by Sophia. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In clear language, Fr. Jackson reveals the rich theological meaning behind the art, architecture, words and gestures of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the Rite of St. Gregory the Great. Immerse yourself in this simple guide to fully appreciate all that is the Traditional Latin Mass. This comprehensive book will help Catholics to appreciate ever more deeply the profound beauty expressed in the Mass.

Book Marriages of St  Joseph Catholic Church  Pascoag  Rhode Island  1893 1991

Download or read book Marriages of St Joseph Catholic Church Pascoag Rhode Island 1893 1991 written by Armand Letourneau and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism  1911   1963

Download or read book John Lafarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism 1911 1963 written by David W. Southern and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Vatican II, before the race riots of the 1940s, the white Jesuit priest John Lafarge decried America’s treatment of blacks. In the first scholarly biography of Lafarge, David W Southern paints a portrait of a man ahead of his church on the race issue who nevertheless did not press hard enough in ridding it of an institutional bias against African-Americans. Southern follows Lafarge from his birth into the Social Register in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1880, to his death in 1963, just months after his participation in the March on Washington. According to Southern, Lafarge was the foremost Catholic spokesman on black-white relations in America for more than thirty years. In a series of books and articles—he served on the staff of the influential Jesuit weekly America from 1926 until his death—he significantly improved the image of the Church in the eyes of black, Jewish, and Protestant leaders. In 1934 he founded the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, the most important Catholic civil rights organization in the pre-Brown era. His declaration in 1937 that racism is a sin and a heresy so impressed the pope that he employed Lafarge to write an encyclical on the subject. Although lauded in his time for his achievements in race relations, Lafarge, Southern contends, espoused too gradualist an approach. Southern maintains that Lafarge was fettered by a fierce loyalty to the Church, a staunch clericalism, an intense concern with the image of Catholicism in Protestant America, an aristocratic background, and Eurocentric thinking—producing in him an abiding paternalism and lingering ambivalence about black culture, and a tendency to conceal the Church’s discriminatory practices rather than reveal them. Moreover, he was too slow to condemn segregation and approve the nonviolent direct action of Martin Luther King, Jr. Still, Southern sees in Lafarge a redeeming capacity for liberal growth, citing his inspiration of a younger, more militant generation of Catholics and his joining in the 1963 march. Based on extensive archival research, John LaFarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism fills a serious gap in Catholic social history and race-relations history. An impressive, engrossing biography, it also casts light on the broader historical issues of the Church’s attitudes and practices toward African-Americans since the Civil War, Catholic liberalism before Vatican II, and the seeds of unrest that manifest themselves today in the rapidly growing black Catholic community.

Book The Prince of Providence

Download or read book The Prince of Providence written by Mike Stanton and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COP: “Buddy, I think this is a whorehouse.” BUDDY CIANCI: “Now I know why they made you a detective.” Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, where corruption is entertainment and Mayor Buddy Cianci presided over the longest-running lounge act in American politics. In The Prince of Providence, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mike Stanton tells a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption. Buddy Cianci was part urban visionary, part Tony Soprano—a flawed political genius in the mold of Huey Long and James Michael Curley. His lust for power cost him his marriage, his family, and close friendships. Yet he also revitalized the city of Providence, where ethnic factions jostle with old-moneyed New Englanders and black-clad artists from the Rhode Island School of Design rub shoulders with scam artists from City Hall. For nearly a quarter of a century, Cianci dominated this uneasy melting pot. During his first administration, twenty-two political insiders were convicted of corruption. In 1984, Cianci resigned after pleading guilty to felony assault, for torturing a man he suspected of sleeping with his estranged wife. In 1990, in a remarkable comeback, Cianci was elected mayor once again; he went on to win national acclaim for transforming a dying industrial city into a trendy arts and tourism mecca. But in 2001, a federal corruption probe dubbed Operation Plunder Dome threatened to bring the curtain down on Cianci once and for all. Mike Stanton takes readers on a remarkable journey through the underside of city life, into the bizarre world of the mayor and his supporting cast, including: • “Buckles” Melise, the city official in charge of vermin control, who bought Providence twice as much rat poison as the city of Cleveland, which was at the time four times as large, and wound up increasing Providence’s rat population. During a garbage strike, Buckles sledgehammered one city employee and stuck his thumb in another’s eye. Cianci would later describe this as “great public policy.” • Anthony “the Saint” St. Laurent, a major Rhode Island bookmaker and loan shark, who tried to avoid prison by citing his medical need for forty bowel irrigations a day, thus earning himself the nickname “Public Enema Number One.” • Dennis Aiken, a celebrated FBI agent and public corruption expert, who asked to be sent to “the Louisiana of the North,” where he enlisted an undercover businessman to expose the corrupt secrets of Cianci’s City Hall. The Prince of Providence is a colorful and engrossing account of one of the most tragicomic figures in modern American life—and the city he transformed.