Thank you to all of our members and friends who joined us for this year’s Garden Party at the society headquarters. It was a delightful evening with wonderful company! Photo gallery Enjoy your summer! Look for new events in September.
Check out the latest issue of American Catholic Studies. It features articles on St. Kateri Tekawitha, missionary history in papal thought, and nineteenth-century Guadalupan apologetics, as well as a fascinating cover essay on art in Italian parishes in New York. Not yet a subscriber? Join the ACHS today! All members...
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Father Thomas Betz’s lecture on the history of Philadelphia’s Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church. Holy Redeemer Church in Philadelphia has the distinction of being the first Catholic church in the Western hemisphere built for Chinese people. Dedicated in 1941, the church recently...
Check out the latest issue of American Catholic Studies. It begins with an article on Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and convert to Catholicism who was recently declared venerable. It also features a survey of English-language biographies of Pope John XXIII, a study of Catholic views...
The latest issue of American Catholic Studies has arrived — and it’s a special one! To mark the journal’s 25th anniversary, we invited leading scholars of American Catholicism to reflect back on the past quarter century. Their brief essays reveal the remarkable dynamism of the genuine sense of community that...
Check out our 2024 annual newsletter to learn about the ACHS, its activities, and our schedule for the upcoming 2024-2025 year! Members should have already received their print copy in the mail. We invite you to share the newsletter with family, friends, associates, and anyone who might be interested in American...
Our summer issue is here! Check it out for a great collections of articles and reviews — including a special set featuring reviews of the recent Cabrini movie, the renovated Seton Shrine museum in Emmitsburg, and the new Dorothy Day exhibit at Manhattan College. Not yet a subscriber? Join the...
We had a spectacular turnout for our May 7 lecture, with more than fifty people in attendance at the house and an equal number online. Mr. Leo Vaccaro, a history teacher at St. Joseph’s Prep, shared his fascinating research on St. Joseph’s church, prep, and hospital during the Civil War. ...
Our Spring 2024 issue has just arrived. With it, we are excited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the relaunch of the journal as American Catholic Studies. You’ll also notice our new look, with a refresh of the cover design and other elements. Check it out! Not yet a subscriber?...
The ACHS is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Society’s research travel grant. Dr. Ramon Luzarraga (pictured), associate professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Martin’s University (Lacey, WA), will be using the Redemptorist Archives to study Redemptorist missions in the Caribbean as part of a larger project...