The Catholic Studies Reader

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Notes 1. ‘‘The Story Is What Saves Us’’: American Catholic Memoirs debra campbell 1. For the epigraph, see Saint Augustine, The Confessions of Augustine, Books I–X, trans. Frank Sheed (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1942), 180. For reflections on the connection between this quotation and Catholic Studies, see Philip Gleason, ‘‘Becoming (and Being) a Catholic Historian,’’ in Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives, ed. Nick Salvatore (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007), 26. 2. In this chapter, the terms ‘‘memoir,’’ ‘‘life-writing,’’ and ‘‘personal narrative ’’ will be used interchangeably, except where the distinction between terms is important for clarity or accuracy. 3. Jay Parini, ed., The Norton Book of American Biography (New York: Norton , 1999), 11–12. 4. Ibid., 12–13. 5. Cabeza de Vaca, Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, trans. Cyclone Covey (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983), 87. 6. Mathew Carey, Autobiography (New York: Eugene L. Schwab, 1942), 10, 24, 87–88, 115. 7. Sister Blandina Segale, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999), xvi. 8. Ibid., 293. 9. Orestes Augustus Brownson, The Convert, or, Leaves from My Experience (New York: E. Dunigan & Brother, 1857), v, vii, 420. 10. John LaFarge, S.J., The Manner Is Ordinary (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books/Doubleday, 1957), 246, 318. 11. Phyllis McGinley, ‘‘Mary Was an Orphan,’’ Saturday Review 40 (June 1957), 31. 12. Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (San Diego: Harvest Books, 1985), 13, 50, 19, 24–27. 13. Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), 9–11, 139–140, 148–149, 164–165. 396 notes to pages 31–43 14. Dale Vree, ‘‘A Radical Holiness,’’ Commonweal 110 (May 6, 1983), 266. 15. Helen Caldwell Day, Color Ebony (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1952), 175–176, and Not Without Tears (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1954). 16. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain (San Diego: Harvest Books, 1998), 416. 17. Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984), xxii–xxiii. 18. Mark S. Massa, Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team (New York: Crossroad, 1999), 50. 19. Garry Wills, Bare Ruined Choirs: Doubt, Prophecy, and Radical Religion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday), 1, 7, 15–16, 18, 272. 20. Abigail McCarthy, Private Faces/Public Places (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday , 1972), 109, 177, 100, 81–82. 21. Robert Hoyt, quoted in Peter Occhiogrosso, Once a Catholic (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987), xiii. 22. Gregory Baum, Journeys: The Impact of Personal Experience on Religious Thought (New York: Paulist Press, 1975), 2–3. 23. Salvatore, Faith and the Historian, 1. 24. Wilfrid Sheed, Frank and Maisie: A Memoir with Parents (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985), 12; Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), 48–79, 40; James Carroll, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966), 2, 8–9, 103–104. 25. Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (New York: Norton, 1999), 48, 39–41; Patricia Hampl, Virgin Time. (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992). 26. Mary Gordon, The Shadow Man: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father (New York: Random House, 1996), 268–269. 27. For one example of the new forms of life-writing that address the silences, see Peter Phan and Jung Young Lee, eds., Journeys at the Margin: Toward an Autobiographical Theology in American-Asian Perspective (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1999). 28. Carroll, An American Requiem, 15. 2. The Catholic Intellectual Tradition: A Classification and a Calling mary ellen o’donnell 1. Sr. Jerome Corcoran, The Catholic Elementary School Principal (Milwaukee : Bruce, 1961), 12. notes to pages 43–50 397 2. Thomas Landy, ‘‘Introduction: Yeast and Three Measures of Flour,’’ in As Leaven in the World: Catholic Perspectives on Faith, Vocation and the Intellectual Life, ed. Thomas Landy (Franklin, Wis.: Sheed & Ward, 2001), xi. 3. See Louis K. Dupre, The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004); Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: Science of Freedom (New York: Norton, 1996); Peter Hulme and Ludmilla Jordanova, ed., The Enlightenment and Its Shadows (London: Routledge, 1990); Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); R. Scott Appleby, C.S.J., Patricia Byrne, and William L. Portier, ed., Creative...