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In this talk, Dr. Jeffery Appelhans will share research from his current book project, “The Creation of American Catholicism: From the Revolution to the Early Republic,” which offers a new narrative on how the Revolution and the early republic created American Catholics by unleashing the forces that established them as American.  

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Dr. Jeffery Appelhans (PhD, University of Delaware) specializes in the political and religious culture of colonial, Revolutionary, and early America, as well as book history and bibliography. He is currently the Richard Lounsbery Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. 

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5:00pm  Social Hour |  6:00pm  Dinner  |  7:00pm  lecture with an option for online attendance

In this talk, Dr. Daniel Cosacchi (University of Scranton) will discuss the background of how his book (and Pope Francis’s historic address to Congress) came about. In doing so, he will also touch briefly on some of the figures in the book, with an eye towards how we might all become “great American prophets” in our own time.

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Dr. Daniel Cosacchi serves as the Vice President for Mission and Ministry at the University of Scranton. He holds a PhD in Christian Ethics from Loyola University Chicago. He previously held positions at Marywood University and Fairfield University. In addition to Great American Prophets, he is co-editor of The Berrigan Letters: Personal Correspondence Between Daniel and Philip Berrigan (Orbis Books, 2016).

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Dinner and Lecture:  $20 members / $30 non-members
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$25 members and non-members

We are excited to be welcoming the upcoming spring season and St. Patrick Day holiday with you. Beverages, dinner, dessert, and music provided. We will also have a short program of communally sung Irish songs lead by Soprano Siobhan Geraghty and Pianist Rich Burns.

Please join us as we debut our newly donated portrait of Msgr.Bernard McKenna (ACHS President 1941-1944) in the 2nd Floor Flick Room!

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Sunday, February 18, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

In this talk, Ms. Bea Joyner will speak about her documentary project, Oneness: A Black Catholic’s Journey, which began as an effort to document Black Catholic life at Most Blessed Sacrament Church in West Philadelphia in 1985. 

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About the Speaker: Bea Joyner, CEO of Busy As A Bea Productions, LLC, has been documenting African Americans through her photographs, workshops, and writings. She began documenting Black Catholic life when she enrolled her children in Most Blessed Sacrament School in West Philadelphia, which led her to produce a documentary and a photo book entitled, “Oneness: A Black Catholic’s Journey.” Cited as one of only four African American domestic humor authors, she published two award winning books, “Don’t Need No Soaps, My Life Is Soap Enough!” and “A Taste of Things to Come.” Ms. Joyner is currently working on her doctorate in Education at St. Joseph’s University. 

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Due to weather conditions, Sunday’s lecture will be held on Zoom only. 

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Sunday, January 21, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

This talk explores how anti-Catholic prejudice played a central role in leading the American colonies to declare their independence from Great Britain, and how this prejudice was a powerful shaping influence during the American founding. 

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Grant Stanton is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pennsylvania, studying the American Revolution.  His work has appeared in popular and peer-reviewed journals that include the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and Early American Studies. 

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In this lecture, Dr. William Portier will speak on the life of Father Thomas A. Judge, CM (1868-1933). While Philadelphians know of him from the high school that bears his name, many are unaware of his pioneering work developing the lay apostolate. Come hear more about his fascinating story!

Dr. William Portier is the Mary Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology at the University of Dayton. The author of several books and more than one hundred articles and reviews, and recipient of numerous awards, his work in historical theology has focused particularly on the relationship between faith and culture in the U.S. context.

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Dr. Michael Mullan (Swarthmore College) will speak on his new book, The Philadelphia Irish (Rutgers University Press). The work describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community.

Michael Mullan

Michael Mullan is professor emeritus of sociology at Swarthmore College. He was also the head men’s tennis team coach there for forty years where his teams won three NCAA Division III championships; he continues to be active on the international veteran’s tennis circuit. Mullan holds PhDs in both sociology and history.