Notes and Comments
- Notes and Comments
Association News
At the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association held in Washington, DC, on January 2–5, 2014, the following awards and prizes were presented. In the area of scholarship, teaching, and service, the ACHA was proud to confer the Distinguished Scholarship Award upon James T. Fisher (Fordham University); the Distinguished Teaching Award upon Roy P. Domenico (University of Scranton); and the Distinguished Service to Catholic Studies Award upon Karen M. Kennelly, C.S.J. (Conference on the History of Women Religious). The 2013 John Gilmary Shea Book Prize was presented to Charles Keith (Michigan State University) for Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation (Berkeley, 2012). The 2013 Howard R. Marraro Book Prize was presented to Areli Marina (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) for The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma in the Communal Age (University Park, PA, 2012). The Peter Guilday Award, for best first journal article, was presented to independent scholar Sean Fabun for “Catholic Chaplains in the Civil War,” and the John Tracy Ellis Outstanding Dissertation Award was conferred on Amanda Scott (Washington University in St. Louis) for her work “The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power, 1550–1800.”
Causes of Saints
On April 3, 2014, Pope Francis extended to the universal Church the liturgical cult for three missionaries who worked in the New World: François de Laval (1623–1708), bishop of Quebec; Marie de l’Incarnation, O.S.U. (neé Marie Guyart, 1599–1672), foundress of the Ursulines in Canada; and José de Anchieta, S.J. (1534–97), known as the apostle of Brazil.
Research Tools
Brepols Publishers Online has announced Indexreligious, a new reference bibliography covering academic publications in theology, religious studies, and church history, including 565,000 bibliographic records and 123,000 review references. It was launched in January 2014. For more information, visit http://www.brepolis.net/IR or brepolis@brepols.net.
The biannual journal Vincentian Heritage, published by DePaul University’s Vincentian Studies Institute, switched to a digital format beginning with volume 32 on March 6. It will become an open source that can be downloaded at http://depaule.ws/VH. For more information on the journal, visit http://bit.ly/1oNnOUc. [End Page 403] Historic photographs can be downloaded at http://depaulne.ws/VHimages.
Historic Restoration
The History Fund of Ohio has given a $15,000 grant toward the restoration of the White Water Shaker Village near Harrison, Ohio (west of Cincinnati). Founded by the Shakers in 1822, the village is one of twenty-four such communal villages in the United States. The White Water Village has more than twenty original buildings and is Ohio’s most intact Shaker site. Restoration is beginning with the 1827 meeting house. For more information, visit http://www.whitewatervillage.org.
Conferences
On May 8–10, 2014, the XLII Incontro di Studiosi dell’Antichità Cristiana will hold a conference at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome on the theme “Povertà e ricchezza nel Cristianesimo Antico (I–V sec.).” Section A on May 8 (devoted to “Wealth and Poverty in the Jewish World and in Pre-Nicaean Christianity”) will feature the following papers: “Poverty and Wealth in the LXX Version of Job and Some Examples of Christian Interpretation” by Mario Cimosa and Gillian Bonney; “Nel segno dell’ambivalenza: i concetti di povertà-ricchezza nella riflessione rabbinica: il caso del Pirqe Avot” by Massimo Gargiulo; “Divitiae vestrae putrefactae sunt (Gc 5,2). Tra rivendicazioni sociali e letteratura apocalittica. Il contrasto tra πτωχοί e πλούσιοι nella Lettera di Giacomo” by Alberto d’Incà; “Elemosina redentiva nel secondo e terzo secolo” by Robert Tonsati; “The Redemptive Almsgiving in the Didachè” by Fernando Rivas Rebaque; “Povertà e ricchezza secondo la dottrina della creazione di Marcione” by Maurizio Girolami; “La giustizia bilanciata. Il concetto teologico e antropologico di giustizia nell’insegnamento di Clemente di Alessandria” by Miklós Gyurkovics; “Povertà e ricchezza negli Atti di Tommaso. Suggestioni e ipotesi interpretative” by Caterina Schiariti; and “Mc10, 17–31: dal Quis dives salvetur? al Codice neotestamentario Alessandrino” by Matteo Monfrinotti.
Section B (devoted to “Post-Nicene Authors”) will feature the following papers: “Il Concilio di Nicea non ha fonato xenodochi. Carità e...
