The American Jesuits: A History

Notes and Sources

Notes and Sources Abbreviations AC James Hennessey, American Catholics ACS&S Charles Morris, American Catholic, Saints and Sinners ACE Jay P. Dolan, American Catholic Experience CAF John T. McCreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom HSJ William Bangert, History of the Society of Jesus RAS author’s Fordham: A History and Memoir, observation, or interviews TFJ John O’Malley, The First Jesuits WL Woodstock Letters Notes to the Prologue There are dozens of books on the Society of Jesus which survey the Society’s history. For the purposes of this study, the most important are William V. Bangert, S.J.’s encyclopedic A History of the Society of Jesus (hereafter HSJ), though its treatment of the modern era is brief, and John O’Malley, S.J.’s more recent and beautifully written, The First Jesuits (hereafter TFJ). There are also several books on the Society’s early years and biographies of the first saints by James Brodrick, S.J., which have been enormously influential in the formation of the current generation of Jesuits. Two major recent biographies of St. Ignatius Loyola are Jose Ignacio Tellechea Idigoras’s Ignatius Loyola, the Pilgrim Saint and William Meissner, S.J.’s Ignatius of Loyola: The Psychology of a Saint. George Ganss, S.J.’s edited Ignatius of Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works contains an excellent summary of his life, his autobiography, and his basic writings, in addition to an analysis of Jesuit spirituality. An indispensable treasure of American Jesuit history is Woodstock Letters (hereafter WL), a periodical published from Woodstock College, the first American Jesuit seminary , in Maryland, from 1872 until Woodstock moved to New York in 1970. Intended as a bond of union among American Jesuits, similar to the Relations, it published firsthand reports from various houses, obituaries, letters from military chaplains and missionaries—the raw material of history. The story of the Society’s first attempt to establish itself in Florida and the Southern states, along with the story of Pedro Martinez, is from Michael Kenny, S.J.’s 285 the Romance of the Floridas: The Finding and the Founding; the Martinez account is also in a pamphlet, Pedro Martinez, S.J., Martyr of Florida. On Jesuits and Jews, see James Bernauer, S.J., “The Holocaust and the Search for Forgiveness ,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, 36/2 Summer 2004. For women Jesuits , see Lisa Fullam, “Juana, S.J.: The Past (and Future?) Status of Women in the Society of Jesus,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, 31/5 November 1999. Notes to Chapter 1 Most of the chapter is based on HSJ, TFJ, Jonathan Wright’s God’s Soldiers, plus Frederick Coppleston, S.J.’s History of Philosophy. The quote calling these decades “the most glorious” is from Peter Masten Dunne, S.J., Pioneer Jesuits in Northern Mexico. Notes to Chapter 2 The standard source for Andrew White and the founding of the Maryland colony is the Thomas Hughes History of the Society of Jesus in North America, Colonial and Federal, vol. 1. The most recent is John D. Krugler, English and Catholic , The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. Robert Emmett Curran, S.J.’s edited American Jesuit Spirituality, The Maryland Tradition, 1634–1900, includes documents through the 18th century. Curran’s The Maryland Jesuits, 1634– 1833, with Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., and Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., is a short history of the early years of the Maryland Province. James Hennesey, S.J.’s American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States and Jay P. Dolan’s The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (hereafter ACE), coming from different perspectives, put the Society’s work in the context of early American history. Rory T. Conley’s The Truth in Charity: A History of the Archdiocese of Washington is an illustrated general survey . The description of the Maryland countryside is from the author’s (hereafter RAS) travels. Notes to Chapter 3 A popular biography of Isaac Jogues which had a strong impact on young Catholics in the 1940s is Francis Talbot, S.J., Saint among Savages. The major source from which all historians on the era draw is Reuben Gold Thwaites’s edition of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610–1791 (73 vols.). The Relations were long letters, detailed reports on their missionary efforts, sent to religious superiors in France and then often widely circulated to publicize...