New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era

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Index Abortion issue, 2, 182, 193, 195 Activism, 1, 15, 54, 155 Adams, Henry Austin, 26–27, 32 Addams, Jane, 13, 46–47, 180, 182 African Americans, 14–15, 65, 171, 179 Albert, prince of Belgium (Count of Flanders), 81–82, 83 Alerding, Bishop Herman, 121 Allen, Ethan, 33–34 Allen, Fanny, 34 Almshouses, 47 Aloisi-Masella, Gaetano Cardinal, 77 Alumnae associations, 129 America (magazine), 143, 148, 188–89 American Bishops’ Program of Social Reconstruction, 12 American Catholic Historical Association , 56, 172 American Catholic Historical Society, 29, 33 American Catholicism. See U.S. Catholicism American Catholic Quarterly Review, 18, 20, 24, 32, 43 Americanism, 7, 12, 57, 87, 108; Trinity College and, 9, 62, 72–81, 83, 102 Americanization, 91–98, 106, 151, 155 American Protective Association, 180 American Woman, An (Sullivan pseudonym), 17 Ancient Order of Hibernians: Ladies Auxiliary, 51, 52, 55, 97 Anti-Catholicism, 6, 15, 39, 41, 48, 185; Sullivan on, 23, 24; public schools and, 105; growth of Catholic education and, 107; woman su√rage issue and, 179–81 Antifeminism, 162, 187–96 Antisu√ragists, 160–62, 175–77, 179. See also Woman su√rage movement AOH. See Ancient Order of Hibernians Apostolate of the Press, 24–27, 163, 169 Apostolic communities, 131 Appleby, R. Scott, 18 Associated Press, 49 Assumption Parish (Philadelphia), 127 Atlantic Monthly (magazine), 40, 179 Augustinians, 143 Australia, 148 Autonomy, 19 Ave Maria (publication), 171–72 Avery, Martha Moore, 181–82, 183, 184 Barnard College, 66, 96 Bassi, Laura, 98 Beaven, Archbishop Thomas, 94 Bebel, August, 40 264 Index Belgium, 63, 64, 66, 81–84, 87, 90. See also Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Benedict, Saint, 48 Benevolent organizations, 97. See also specific organizations Bible riots (Philadelphia, 1844), 104 Billiart, Mother Julie, 64, 65, 76 Birth control, 2, 182 Bisopiagia, Helena, 98 Blake, Mary Elizabeth, 54, 166, 184, 190 Board of Community Inspectors (Philadelphia ), 110–11, 112, 140 ‘‘Boards of Education and Historical Truth’’ (pamphlet), 38, 40 Bonner, Hugh, 64 Bonner, John, 64 Bonner, Letitia, 64 Bonner, Stephen, 64 Bonner family, 63, 64 Boston, Mass., 1, 4, 162, 165, 170, 174 Boylan, Anne M., 2 Braude, Ann, 2–3, 15 Brekus, Catherine A., 2, 11 Brent, Margaret, 172 Brigid, Saint, 48 Brooklyn, N.Y., 130 Brosnahan, Sister Eleanore, 190–91 Brotherhoods, Catholic, 121–23, 152 Brown, Dorothy, 1 Browne, Mary (Marion Brunowe), 25, 35 Brownson House (Los Angeles), 148 Brumbaugh, Martin, 144 Bryn Mawr College, 66, 93, 94, 95 Buchanan, James and Susan Gorman, 21 Buchanan, Margaret Frances. See Sullivan , Margaret Buchanan Bucher, Mother Agnes, 135, 136 Bugg, Lelia Hardin, 98 Burns, Reverend James, 111, 113, 123, 134, 150; on vocations, 121; normal school proposal of, 140, 142; on public school secularization, 146–47; on nuns’ salaries, 151–52 Butler, Mother Marie Joseph (Johanna), 96 Butler, Sister Mary Patricia, 67 Byrne, Bishop Thomas, 123 Camhi, Jane Jerome, 160 Campbell, Jane, 47, 56, 172 Canada, 32 Canonical status, 111 Canonization, 28, 31, 36–38 ‘‘Canticle of the Classroom’’ (Sister Assisium), 138 Carnot, Marie François Sadi, 49 Carrigan, Thomas, 43, 45 Carroll, Archbishop John, 33 Carroll, Charles, 33 Carroll, Mother Mary Austin, 26, 32–33 Carter, Ellen, 84, 86, 88–90 Carter, Thomas, 84 Cary, Emma Forbes, 51, 87, 187 Cathedral Girls’ High School Centre (Philadelphia), 101, 127 Cathedral Parish (Philadelphia), 127 Catherine of Alexandria, Saint, 45–46, 53–54, 56, 163 Catherine of Siena, Saint, 37, 45, 53, 54, 97, 163, 166, 172, 185 Catholic Centenary Conference (1889), 30 Catholic Church: women’s position in, 1, 17–18, 38–58, 179, 182–85, 194–96; patriarchy and, 3, 4, 6, 16, 40, 48; ‘‘True Woman’’ ideal and, 5–6, 19, 20, 30, 51–52, 58, 80, 160; popular heroines of, 8, 27, 28, 34–35, 46, 47–48, 52–53; in England, 17; Sullivan’s defense of, 23, 24, 25, 49–51; con- Index 265 demnation of modernism by, 56–57; new feminism and, 194. See also U.S. Catholicism; Vatican Catholic Educational Association, 119, 122, 136; women’s college accreditation and, 61; founding of, 109; Superintendent ’s Section, 111; McDevitt and, 111, 112, 141; on vocations, 121, 129; Sister Assisium and, 145, 148 Catholic Encyclopedia, 19 Catholic Girls Guide, 185 Catholic Girls’ High School (Philadelphia ), 38, 47–48, 127, 128–29, 140, 141 Catholic identity: public life and, 10; Conway and, 16, 161, 169, 170–71, 181, 193; women’s higher education and, 72; Irish Americans and...