About This Issue

We are pleased to offer these essays on the theme of pilgrimage and migration. U.S. Catholics have long been noted for being “on the move,” migrating from the Old World to the New, from the East to West, from rural to urban America, and from the urban core to the suburbs, among other transitions. These essays highlight their physical and spiritual journeys.

We are grateful to our contributors. William S. Cossen is a doctoral candidate in history at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. David J. Endres, in addition to serving as editor of this journal, is academic dean and assistant professor of Church history at the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. Adrienne Nock Ambrose is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas. Gráinne McEvoy is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland post-doctoral fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently preparing a book-length manuscript titled God at the Gates: American Catholic Social Thought and Immigration, 1910–1965. Anita Casavantes Bradford is associate professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California Irvine. Brett Hendrickson is assistant professor of religious studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Kellie Jean Hogue is a research associate at the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.