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Tables of Contents for Public Voices
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xvii
 
Christopher J. Kauffman
Acknowledgments
xxi
 
General Introduction
xxiii
 
Steven M. Avella
Elizabeth McKeown
Part I 1776-1865
Introduction
1
1
Church and Society
2
34
Rev. John Carroll to Cardinal Vitaliano Borromeo, 10 November 1783
4
2
Rev. John Carroll, "Proposals to Establish an Academy at George Town, Patowmack River, Maryland," 1788
6
2
Rev. John Carroll et al. to George Washington [undated, late in 1789], and Reply, 12 March 1790
8
2
Bishop John Carroll, Prayer for civil Authorities, 10 November 1791
10
1
A Norfolk Trustee to President Thomas Jefferson and Members of Congress, December 1818
11
5
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
16
2
William Gaston, Address to the Constitutional Convention of North Carolina, 1835
18
3
The Constitution of the Roman Catholic Churches of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia: Which are Comprised in the Dioceses of Charleston, and Province of Baltimore, U.S.A., As Fully Agreed To, and Accepted, After Repeated Discussion, By the Clergy and the Several Congregations, and Regularly Confirmed by the Bishop, and Subsequently Amended According to the Form Prescribed, 1839
21
3
John Hughes, Bishop of New York, "Address of the Catholics to Their Fellow Citizens of the City and State of New York," 10 August 1840
24
5
Address to the Catholic Lay Citizens, of the City and County of Philadelphia, to Their Fellow-Citizens, in Reply to the Presentment of the Grand Jury of the Court of Quarter Sessions of May Term 1844, in Regard to the Causes of the Late Riots in Philadelphia
29
4
John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, to Horace Greeley, Editor, New York Tribune, 21 November 1851
33
3
Slavery
36
11
Peter Kenny, S.J., Provincial Visitor, "`Temporalities': Report Submitted to Corporation Leadership re: Conditions on Plantations owned and operated by the Society of Jesus," 1820
37
1
Bill of Sale for Negroes of the Maryland Mission, 1835
38
1
Unsigned Editorial, "The Catholic Church, Domestic Slavery, and the Slave Trade," United States Catholic Miscellany, 9 December 1843
39
2
Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, to Rev. Samuel Nott of Wareham, Massachusetts, 19 August 1857
41
2
Rev. Edward Purcell, "The Church and Slavery," 8 April 1863
43
4
War
47
24
"The Washington Union and the Sequestration of Church Property in Mexico during the War," 22 May 1847
47
3
James A. McMaster, "The Ship on the Breakers," 8 June 1861
50
4
Patrick N. Lynch, Bishop of Charleston, to John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, 4 August 1861
54
6
John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, to Patrick N. Lynch, Bishop of Charleston, 23 August 1861
60
7
John Hughes, Archbishop of New York, to William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, 1 November 1862
67
4
Part 2 1865-1920
Introduction
71
2
Education
73
4
Ulysses S. Grant's Proposal and James G. Blaine's Amendment, 29 September-14 December 1875
73
1
Instruction of the Congregation de Propaganda Fide concerning Catholic Children Attending American Public Schools, 24 November 1875
74
3
Church and Economic Order
77
10
The Pastoral Letter of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore on Forbidden Societies, 7 December 1884
77
3
Cardinal James Gibbons to Cardinal Simeoni, 25 February 1887
80
3
"Mgr. Ireland's Social View: He Pleads for Material Welfare as a Means, Not an End," 14 October 1894
83
4
Coping with Modernity
87
17
John A. Ryan, Professor of Moral Theology, St. Paul Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, "The Small Family and National Decadence," 1904
88
6
Rev. William Kerby, "Reinforcement of the Bonds of Faith," January 1907
94
6
Rev. John J. Burke, C.S.P., General Secretary, National Catholic Welfare Council, Washington, D.C., "The National Catholic Welfare Council," 1920
100
3
Administrative Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Council, Statement on Federalization and Bureaucracy, 26 January 1922
103
1
Poverty and Reform
104
33
Rev. William Kerby, "The Poor," November 1912
104
3
Rev. John A. Ryan, A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects, 1912
107
8
Rev. John A. Ryan, "Program of Social Reconstruction," Issued 12 February 1919 by the Administrative Committee of the National Catholic War Council
115
6
Pastoral Letter Issued by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy of the United States, 26 September 1919
121
9
Rev. Joseph Reiner, S.J., Regent, School of Commerce and Sociology, St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, Ohio, "A Program for Social Legislation," 1920
130
4
Helen P. McCormick, Assistant District Attorney and Chairman, Catholic Big Sisters, Brooklyn, N.Y., "Women's Interest in Social and Democratic Movements," 1920
134
3
Part 3 1920-45
Introduction
137
3
Church and Society
140
17
Rev. Francis J. Walsh, Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, to Rt. Rev. Monsignor Edward A. Pace, Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 20 November 1920
140
3
Rt. Rev. Alexander Christie, Archbishop of Oregon City, to Rev. John J. Burke, General Secretary, National Catholic Welfare Council, 13 July 1922
143
1
Rev. John A. Ryan, "Comments on the Christian Constitution of States," 1922
144
5
Cardinal William H. O'Connell [Boston] to Bishop Edmund F. Gibbons [Albany], 14 October 1924, and Reply, 21 October 1924; and Cardinal Wiliam H. O'Connell to Mrs. Thomas W. Proctor, Boston, 15 December 1924
149
2
Rev. Joh A. Ryan, "Present Position of the Child Labor Amendment," February and March 1925
151
3
Pierce v. Society of Sisters, June 1925
154
2
"Alfred E. Smith's Reply to Charles C. Marshall," May 1927
156
1
Foreign Policy and International Order
157
24
Pastoral Letter of the U.S. Hierarchy on Mexico, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12 December 1926
157
5
"To the Spanish Hierarchy: A Statement Issued by the Catholic Bishops of the United States," 18 November 1937
162
2
Address of the Most Rev. Joseph P. Hurley, Bishop of St. Augustine, 6 July 1941
164
4
Most Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa, "Congressmen: Be Warned!" 27 July 1941
168
4
Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, Columbus Day Address, 12 October 1942
172
3
"Victory and Peace," a Statement Issued by the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, 14 November 1942
175
2
Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, "International Order," 16 November 1944
177
4
The Depression and the New Deal
181
36
"Statement on the Economic Crisis," Issued by the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference for the American Bishops, 12 November 1931
182
2
Testimony before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, United States Congress, 73d Congress, 18-19 January 1934
184
6
Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, Organized Social Justice: An Economic Program for the United States Applying Pius XI's Great Encyclical on Social Life (131 Signers), 1935
190
3
Conference of Religious, National Conference of Catholic Charities; Chair, Sister Katharine, O.S.B., College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, "Catholic Programs of Child Care among Racial Groups," 1935
193
11
Rose J. McHugh, Chief, Administrative Surveys Division, Bureau of Public Assistance, Social Security Board, Washington, D.C., "Functions of Catholic Charities in Assisting People to Obtain Their Rights under the New Governmental Programs," 1939
204
6
Dorothy Day, House of Hospitality, 1939
210
4
Edward Roberts Moore, Roman Collar, 1948
214
3
Part 4 1945 TO THE PRESENT
Introduction
217
3
Church and Society
220
16
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Religion, Our Most Vital National Asset: A Statement by the Bishops of the United States," 16 November 1952
220
4
John Tracy Ellis, "Letter to a Bishop," 9 November 1972
224
5
Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, "Civil Religion in the United States," 8 June 1975
229
4
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, "The Church and Its Public Life," 10 June 1989
233
3
Communism
236
15
Diocesan Confidential Questionnaire on Communism, Commissioned by the National Catholic Welfare Conference with Responses from the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, 1945
237
5
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Persecution behind the Iron Curtain," 22 April 1952
242
1
Bishop Bernard J. Sheil, Address to the UAW-CIO International Education Conference, Chicago, 9 April 1954
243
3
Rev. Fulton J. Sheen, "Foreign Policies and the Missions," 1954
246
5
Race
251
10
Rev. Daniel M. Cantwell, "Postscript on the Cicero Riot: A Turning Point in Race Relations Might Have Been Reached in Chicago with the Frank Display of Bigotry," 14 September 1951
251
3
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Discrimination and Christian Conscience," 14 November 1958
254
2
Cardinal Albert Meyer, "The Mantle of Leadership," Resurrection Parish, Chicago, Illinois, 21 September 1960
256
3
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Statement on National Race Crisis," 25 April 1968
259
2
War and Peace
261
17
"Taking a Stand," 7 July 1950
262
1
"Questions Raised by the Korean War," September 1950
263
1
Rev. Philip Berrigan, S.S.J., "Vietnam and America's Conscience," October 1965
264
3
Cardinal Lawrence Shehan, "The Overriding Moral Issues of Modern Warfare," Pastoral Letter to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 28 June 1966
267
3
William V. Shannon, "The Case for the War," 8 December 1967
270
3
"The War, Patriotism, and Extremism," 20 September 1972
273
2
Archbishop John Roach, Statement on the Murders of Catholics in El Salvador, 5 December 1980
275
1
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, 3 May 1983
276
2
Education
278
10
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "The Child: Citizen of Two Worlds," 17 November 1950
279
3
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Private and Church-Related Schools in American Education," 20 November 1955
282
3
Washington Archdiocesan Catholic Lawyers' Committee on Equal Educational Rights, "Freedom of Choice in Education," 7, 14, and 21 April 1961
285
3
Social Questions
288
26
Robert D. Cross, "Catholic Charities," 1962
289
1
Bishop Walter Sullivan, Address to the Committee for National Health Insurance, 12 September 1975
290
3
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Statement on the Housing Crisis, 20 November 1975
293
2
Archbishop John Quinn, "Health Ministry in a Pluralist Nation," Address to the Catholic Hospital Association, 4 June 1979
295
4
Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan, "Budget Cuts and Human Lives: The Harsh Reality of the Economic System: Testimony before the House Committee on the Budget," 22 February 1982
299
4
Michael Novak, "The Two Catholic Letters on the U.S. Economy," 1985
303
3
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, A Pastoral Message: Economic Justice for All, November 1986
306
5
Rev. Edwin M. Conway, "The Forms of Homelessness: Testimony before a Subcommittee of the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs," 4 February 1987
311
3
Movies and Television
314
7
Working Draft of the Daniel Lord-Martin Quigley [Moving Picture] Code Proposal, ca. November 1929
315
1
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Censorship," 17 November 1957
316
3
"State of the Question: Catholic Code for Television Viewers," 2 August 1958
319
2
Organized Labor
321
12
"AFL-CIO Is Born," 17 December 1955
321
2
Alice Ogle, "California Farm Labor," 19-26 December 1964
323
3
Michael Novak, "Participatory Democracy at Work: The Grape Strike," 24 December 1965
326
4
"California Bishops Praise Farm Labor Law: Statement of the Catholic Bishops of California on Farm Labor Law," 5 June 1975
330
1
Msgr. George Higgins, Address to the National Catholic Educational Association on Unionism in Catholic Schools, 5 October 1976
331
2
Human Sexuality: Birth Control, Abortion, Homosexuality
333
28
Administrative Board, National Catholic Welfare Conference, "Explosion or Backfire?" 19 November 1959
334
3
Dexter L. Hanley, S.J., "The Catholic and Population Policy," 1966
337
4
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Statement on the Government and Birth Control," 14 November 1966
341
3
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, "Statement on Abortion," 22 April 1970
344
1
Archbishop John Quinn, "A Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality," 5 May 1980
345
7
Archbishop Rembert Weakland, "Listening Sessions on Abortion: A Response," 20 May 1990
352
5
National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee, "Always Our Children," Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers, 27 November 1997
357
4
Catholics and Electoral Politics
361
1
John F. Kennedy, Address to the Houston Ministerial Association, September 1960
361
3
Statement of 166 Catholic Laymen on Religious Freedom in a Presidential Campaign, 5 October 1960
364
2
Administrative Board of the U.S. Catholic Conference, "Political Responsibility: Reflections on an Election Year," 12 February 1976
366
2
Archbishop John Roach, "The Need for Public Dialogue on Religion and Politics: Address to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops," 17 November 1981
368
3
Mario Cuomo, "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective," University of Notre Dame, 13 September 1984
371