The Catholic Parish in Urban America:
The Foundation for Creative Social and Theological Traditions

Featuring Keynote Addresses By

Dr. John T. McGreevy,
Professor and Chair of the Department of History
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Patrick Carey
William J. Kelly, S.J., Chair in Catholic Theology
Marquette University

Convener: Dr. Randall Miller
Professor of History, Saint Joseph’s University

Noted historians, new scholars and archivists will share their expertise on the history of Catholic parish in urban America exploring the following topics.

•“The Urban Catholic Parish Shaping American Social and Theological Traditions”
•“Starting Points for a History of the Urban Parish”
•“Figures in the Creation of the Urban Catholic Church”
•"Contexts for the Study of the Urban Parish".
•“William Hogan, Francis Patrick Kenrick, and the Battle that Changed a Diocese."
•“Old St. Joseph’s and the Church in New Jersey”
•“Rev. Felix J. Barbelin, S.J.: Saving Jesuit Lives”
•“Early 19th Century Pewholders at Old Saint Joseph’s: The Profile of an Urban Parish”
•“The Role of the Parish in Catholic Suffrage Mobilization”
•“Black Catholicism in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia”
•“Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Catholicism A Geography of Religion”
•“Financing Catholic Institutional Growth in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia”
•“Points of Convergence and Divergence for the Development of Catholic Parish Life”

All are invited
11 AM registration begins – 12:30 PM Opening session – 7:30 PM Keynote Addresses

For more information contact: The Office of Mission, Saint Joseph’s University

610-660-3290 Email: djoyce@sju.edu www.sju.edu/mission/