About This Issue

This issue considers the role of language in U.S. Catholic history. The diverse contributions include the impact of language in anti-Catholic discourse, inter-religious dialogue, and in ministry among the foreign-born and deaf.

Patrick Carey holds the William J. Kelly, S.J., Chair in Catholic Theology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Herbert D. Miller was recently awarded a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Dayton, where he is currently an adjunct instructor. His contribution to this issue was drawn from his dissertation, “Enacting Theology, Americanism, and Friendship: The 1837 Debate on Roman Catholicism Between Alexander Campbell and Bishop John Purcell.” Mary Elizabeth Brown is archivist and adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College, New York City; she is also the archivist for the Center for Migration Studies, also in New York City. Carlos Hugo Parra-Pirela is a lecturer in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2012; his research presented here is drawn from his dissertation on the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions. Marlana Portolano is associate professor of English and director of the Master of Arts in Humanities program at Towson University, Towson, Maryland.

Mark G. Thiel, archivist at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the reviewer of Emma Anderson’s The Death and Afterlife of the North American Martyrs. Our symposium review of Christopher Shannon and Christopher O. Blum’s The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History includes contributions from William T. Cavanaugh, director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and a professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University, Chicago; William L. Portier, professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton, holding the Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology; and William Junker, assistant professor of Catholic Studies and the Co-director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Christopher Shannon is associate professor of history at Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia; Christopher O. Blum is professor of history and philosophy at the Augustine Institute, Greenwood Village, Colorado.