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U.S. Catholic Historian

The Summer 2022 edition of U.S. Catholic Historian features articles with connections to Dominican University, as well as Dominican ministry. “Dominicans in America” is the title of the summer edition, which includes four scholarly articles on this theme.

A Sinsinawa Sister and Rosary College English professor’s work refuting racist theories in the mid-20th Century is discussed in the article “A Dominican Sister Confronts Caste: The Racial Justice Awakenings of Sister Mary Ellen O’Hanlon, O.P.” The piece was written by Sr. Mary Paynter, O.P., ’52, who also taught English at Rosary College.

Christopher Allison, current director of the McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies, which is housed at DU, wrote about Dominican women and architecture in the 20th century. The piece focuses on Dominican University’s original Rosary College campus construction in 1922, the creation of the Queen of the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa Mound in 1964, and the Dominican chapels at motherhouses at Grand Rapids and Great Bend, Kansas in the 1980s. The article is entitled “Charism in the Cornerstone: Dominican Women and Sacred Space in the 20th Century Midwest.”

Both pieces can be read here. The Summer 2022 edition U.S. Catholic Historian can be purchased in its entirety at www.cuapress.org/journals/us-catholic-historian.

The issue was guest-edited by the McGreal Center for Dominican Historical Studies.

U.S. Catholic Historian focuses on the history of the Catholic Church in the United States.