The Roman
Catholic Church
Roman
Catholicism and Jewry in Connecticut are treated in the “Education”
and “Immigration” sections above because most of the works dealing
with people of those religions are focused on the Irish, the Italians,
the Germans, the Poles, or some other national group. However,
a few items fit better here than there.
Daily,
Maria Renata. “The Connecticut Mind and Catholicism, 1823-1860.”
Doctoral dissertation, Yale, 1939. “Perhaps no more profound
alteration occurred in the religious thinking of Connecticut people
than that which admitted Catholics into the social and economic
and political body .... The aim here was to investigate the broad
cultural alterations, to see in what manner Puritanism viewed
Catholicism prior to actual contact, and then to analyze the social
modification which brought about fusion in the community and
the consequent effects on each culture.” (p. i-ii) Politics not
emphasized.
Duggan,
Thomas S. “The Catholic Church in Connecticut.” In Norris Galpin
Osborn. History of Connecticut in Monographic Form (New
York: States History Company, 1925)3:421-658. The author was Vicar-General
of the Diocese of Hartford.
Janick,
Herbert “Catholicism and Culture: The American Experience of Thomas
Lawrason Riggs, 1888-1943,” Catholic Historical Review
68(July, 1982) 3:451-68. This article examines the career of the
first Roman Catholic chaplain at Yale.
Liptak,
Dolores Ann. “European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut,
1870-1920.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut,
1979. The Catholic population of the nation doubled between 1880
and 1900, increasing to almost twenty million by 1920. A problem
grew from the fact that the hierarchy was predominantly Gaelic-American,
while the new immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe.
Immigrant policy was made at the diocesan level, and Hartford
was one of the first to develop such policy. There was much discord
at first as groups sought to maintain ethnic individuality—a practice
encouraged by the Church—but ultimately procedures were developed
that allowed for harmonious interaction between the hierarchy
and the ethnic leaders.
—”The
National Parish: Concept and Consequences for the Diocese of Hartford,
1890-1930.” Catholic Historical Review (forthcoming). This
article will focus on diocesan efforts to establish national parishes
for several of the Catholic immigrant groups in Connecticut.
See, in the interim, Liptak’s “Yesterday’s Immigrants: A Study
of the Diocese of Hartford, 1870-1920.” Migration Today (November-December,
1979):32-34. But see also Wolkovich, above.
Mason,
Mary Paul. “Church-State Relations in Education in Connecticut.”
See , under “Education.”
Noonan,
Carroll John. “Nativism in Connecticut, 1829-1860.” See under
“Antebellum Period.”
Munich,
Austin Francis. The Beginnings of Roman Catholicism in Connecticut.
Tercentenary pamphlet XLI (1935). The author was superintendent
of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Hartford. The pamphlet is
full of surprises. The first New England nun was the daughter
of Ethan Allen. The melting pot must have been working, for Father
Munich wrote (in 1935) “Assuredly under the Constitution of 1818,
Connecticut has proved itself a prolific homeland for its Catholic
citizenry and a state much to be loved.” (p. 30) Munich should
have read Noonan, above.
O’Donnell,
James H. “History of the Diocese of Hartford.” In History of
the Catholic Church in the New England States. Edited by William
Byme. Vol. II. Boston:
Hurd
and Evarts, 1899.
Shehan,
Thomas J. “The Catholic Church in Connecticut—The First Priest
in the Commonwealth.” U.S. Catholic Historical Magazine
3(January, 1890)9:16-24. Anti-Catholicism in colonial Connecticut
and Father Gabriel Druillettes’s visit to Connecticut in 1651.
See
also the bibliography in Robert Parmet’s dissertation on Know-Nothings.
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