About This Issue

Abstract

About This Issue Nicholas Rademacher, Co-editor This issue starts with a forum on Catholic masculinity adapted from a roundtable sponsored earlier this year by the American Catholic Historical Association. It brings together six authors who each share a short provocation designed to encourage us to think anew about Catholic masculinity. Guest edited by Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada (Kalamazoo College) and Katherine Dugan (Springfield College), they are joined by Amy Koehlinger (Oregon State University), John Seitz (Fordham University), Jeanne Petit (Hope College), and William S. Cossen (Gwinnett School). Their essays bring together historical and ethnographic perspectives, revealing the importance of interdisciplinary analysis to the field of American Catholic studies. Readers are invited to enter the conversation with them. Kevin Ahern (Manhattan College) explores the history and enduring legacy of the eighteenth annual Pax Romana Congress. Held at The Catholic University of America and Fordham University in 1939, he shows how this meeting set the stage for a new vision to emerge within the organization as this group of young people responded to the onset of World War II. Kathleen Washy, archivist for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, shares the remarkable history of Sister Mary Dennis Donovan's contributions in the areas of education and social justice, addressing economic justice, racial justice, and human rights writ large, in service to the people of Pittsburgh and beyond, from the 1940s through the 1970s. In this issue's cover essay, Sister Nuala Cotter, a member of the Religious of the Assumption, provides a panoramic overview of the contributions that the order has made to the United States and also reflects on how the Assumption Sisters have been shaped, in turn, by this context. From a small band of French women arriving here in 1919, the sisters themselves now reflect the diversity of the global church that is present in the United States today. [End Page i] Copyright © 2021 American Catholic Historical Society