Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York

Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York

Author: John Rose Greene Hassard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9781333263317

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Excerpt from Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D., First Archbishop of New York: With Extracts From His Private Correspondence The School question - Injudicious efforts of the Catholics to obtain a portion of the school fund - The Bishop enters the lists - Petition to the Board of Alder men - Debate before the Common Council - Memorial to the Legislature - The Secretary of State preposes a plan of school reform - The Bishop supports it - The question postponed-candidates for the Legislature pledged to op pose any change - The Bishop advises the Catholics to nominate an indepen dent ticket - Mr. Maclay's school-bill passed - The Bishop's house attacked by a mob - Establishment of Catholic schools - St. John's College opened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Habits of Compassion

Habits of Compassion

Author: Maureen Fitzgerald

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0252047036

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The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs. Parting from Protestant belief in meager and means-tested aid, Irish Catholic nuns argued for an approach based on compassion for the poor. Fitzgerald positions the nuns' activism as resistance to Protestantism's cultural hegemony. As she shows, Roman Catholic nuns offered strong and unequivocal moral leadership in condemning those who punished the poor for their poverty and unmarried women for sexual transgression. Fitzgerald also delves into the nuns' own communities, from the class-based hierarchies within the convents to the political power they wielded within the city. That power, amplified by an alliance with the local Irish Catholic political machine, allowed the women to expand public charities in the city on an unprecedented scale.