Preaching with Their Lives: Dominicans on Mission in the United States after 1850

by Margaret M. McGuinness (Editor), Jeffrey M. Burns (Editor), Arlene Bachanov (Contribution by), Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P. (Contribution by), James T. Carroll (Contribution by)

Overview

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical renewal and the arts, missionary outreach and contemplative prayer, ongoing internal formation and renewal, and models of sanctity. It charts the effects of the United States on Dominican life as well as the Dominican contribution to the larger U.S. history. When the country was engulfed by wave after wave of immigrants and cities experienced unchecked growth, Dominicans provided educational institutions; community, social, and religious centers; and health care and social services. When epidemic disease hit various locales, Dominicans responded with nursing care and spiritual sustenance. As the United States became more complex and social inequities appeared, Dominicans cried out for social and economic justice. Amidst the ugliness and social dislocation of modern society, Dominicans offered beauty through the liturgical arts, the fine arts, music, drama, and film, all designed to enrich the culture. Through it all, the Dominicans cultivated their own identity as well, undergoing regular self-examination and renewal.

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ISBN-13:	9780823289653
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	11/03/2020
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Pages:	320
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About the Author

Margaret M. McGuinness (Edited By)
Margaret M. McGuinness is Professor of American Catholicism at La Salle University. She is the author of Neighbors and Missionaries: A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine and Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America.

Jeffrey M. Burns (Edited By)
Jeffrey M. Burns is Director of the Frances G. Harpst Center for Catholic Thought and Culture at the University of San Diego and Director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace: A History of the Christian Family Movement, 1949–1974.


Arlene Bachanov is a researcher and writer in the history office of the Adrian Dominican Sisters and an Adrian Dominican Associate. She is the author of “Sister Cannonball: The Nun Who Shook Up Adrian,” Michigan History (May/June 2017): 41–47, and the coauthor with Sister Nadine Foley, OP, of To Fields Near and Far: Adrian Dominican Sisters History, 1933–1961 (Adrian Dominican Sisters, 2015).
Elizabeth Michael Boyle, OP, is a retired professor of English at Caldwell College. She is the author of Preaching the Poetry of the Gospels (Liturgical Press, 2003) and Science as Sacred Metaphor (Liturgical Press, 2006)
James T. Carroll is a professor of history at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He is the author of Seeds of Faith: Catholic Indian Boarding Schools (Garland, 2000).
Heath W. Carter is an associate professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Oxford University Press, 2015) and editor of The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class (University of Illinois Press, 2016).
Donna Marie Moses, OP, is a chaplain at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She is the author of American Catholic Women Religious: Radicalized by Mission (Macmillan, 2017).
Cecilia Murray, OP, teaches in the Philosophy and Religious Studies department at Mount St. Mary College, Newburgh, New York. Her publications in- clude Other Waters: A History of the Dominican Sisters of Newburgh, New York (Brookville Books, 1993) and Evergreen Land: A History of the Dominican Sisters of Edmonds, Washington (Active Press, 1997), which she cowrote with David Buerge.
Christopher J. Renz, OP, is a professor of liturgical studies and science and theology and director of institutional research at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (Berkeley). He is the author of “The Hymn of Creation and the Divine Office,” in Sacred Sounds—Exhibition Booklet (Berkeley, CA: Doug Adams Gallery, 2019) and “Liturgical Piety, Awe, and Beauty in a New Liturgical Movement,” Antiphon 9, no. 3 (2015): 284–309.
Ellen Skerrett is a historian of Chicago with a particular interest in Irish America. Her books include Born in Chicago: A History of Chicago’s Jesuit University (Loyola Press, 2008) and Chicago: City of Neighborhoods (Loyola University Press, 1986).
Janet Welsh, OP, a Dominican Sister of Sinsinawa, was the founding director of the Sister Mary Nona McGreal, OP, Center for Dominican Historical Studies at Dominican University until her retirement in 2019. She was the coordinator of Project OPUS: The History of the Order of Preachers in the United States, and served as managing editor of this volume.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Dominicans on Mission
Jeffrey M. Burns | 1

Dominicans in the World
A Joyful Spectrum of Service: The Order of Preachers in New York
James T. Carroll | 15

“In the Midst of Sorrow and Death”: The Work of the
Dominican Sisters in Tennessee during the Yellow Fever Epidemics
Margaret M. McGuinness | 43

Reclaiming the Sinsinawa Dominicans’ Legacy of Catholic Progressive Education
Ellen Skerrett and Janet Welsh, OP | 65

Walking in Solidarity: Dominican Women and the Struggle
for Economic Justice in the Modern United States
Heath W. Carter | 99

A Corporate Stance for Social Justice: The Dominican Sisters
of San Rafael, California, and the 1980s Sanctuary Movement
Cynthia Taylor | 130

Aggiornamento on Campus: William Blase Schauer, OP, and
the Las Cruces Experiment
Christopher J. Renz, OP | 157

Being Dominican
Call and Response: American Dominican Artists and Vatican II
Elizabeth Michael Boyle, OP | 191

Afire with the Itinerant Spirit: Paradigm Shifts in the Foreign Missions
Donna Maria Moses, OP | 215

Dominican Monasteries: Ever Ancient, Ever New
Cecilia Murray, OP | 242

More Than a Mustard Seed: The Parable Conference for
Dominican Life and Mission
Diane Kennedy, OP | 269

From Teacher to Tutor: Adapting a Historic Ministry of
Education to Contemporary Realities
Arlene I. Bachanov | 294

Samuel Mazzuchelli, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, and the Making of American Saints
Kathleen Sprows Cummings | 316

List of Contributors | 345

Index | 347

Editorial Reviews

Noteworthy, as part of Fordham’s “Catholic Practice in North America” series, Preaching with Their Lives adds indispensable scholarly understanding to Catholic studies in general and, in particular, to the Dominican Order’s charism of contemplation and mission in the U.S. after 1850. Among this volume’s strengths are the seasoned scholars and other dedicated researchers that the editors, McGuinness. . .

Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum

Preaching with Their Lives makes a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic religious life in the United States. The essays in this collection reveal the wide-ranging ways that members of the Dominican order have borne witness to the Word, from education and parish ministry to social activism and the arts. They bring together the story of women and men of prayer and service, attuned to both the internal transformations taking place within the Dominican order as well as their remarkable engagement with the wider world. With this volume, the Dominicans receive the scholarly attention and recognition they so rightly and richly deserve.—Thomas F. Rzeznik, Seton Hall University

From the Publisher

Preaching with Their Lives makes a valuable contribution to the study of Catholic religious life in the United States. The essays in this collection reveal the wide-ranging ways that members of the Dominican order have borne witness to the Word, from education and parish ministry to social activism and the arts. They bring together the story of women and men of prayer and service, attuned to both the internal transformations taking place within the Dominican order as well as their remarkable engagement with the wider world. With this volume, the Dominicans receive the scholarly attention and recognition they so rightly and richly deserve.

Thomas F. Rzeznik