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Ellis, John Tracy was born on July 30, 1905 in Seneca, Illinois, United States. Son of Elmer Lucian and Ida Cecilia (Murphy) Ellis.
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Preface the conviction that the vast extent and complexity of the American Catholic body at the present time make it virtually impossible to represent within the covers of a single book all their manifold activities and historic backgrounds. A word should be said about the method used in collecting and editing the documents. First, with the exception of those from the colonial period, the arrangement is chronological. Since the Catholic missions of the three European powers that sent out colonies from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries are usually treated as separate units, it seemed best to break the chronology in this earlier section and list the entries under the headings of Spain, France, and England. It was also thought preferable to put two or more items on a single person together under the date of the first document rather than to separate them. Most of the material was naturally taken from sources in English, but for that written in foreign languages standard translations were used whenever they were available. In a few cases, however, translations were made either by the editor himself or were supplied to him through the kindness of friends. In the main the documents are printed just as they appear in the original source, although in some instances minor changes have been made either to improve the translations from foreign sources or to insert punctuation in certain English documents in order to clarify the meaning. For each item a single source has been cited in the introductory note, although in some instances the same document may be found in several collections. The translations of papal bulls and encyclicals generally give the student a reference to the official collections of the Holy See where the original may be read in Latin. While reference has frequently been made in the introductory notes to pertinent books and periodicals, (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism. The priest who documented this exchange also reported with excitement how the Illinois recited prayers and sang hymns in their Native language, a display that astonished the residents of New Orleans. The "Catholic" calumet and the Native-language prayers and hymns were the product of long encounters between the Illinois and Jesuit missionaries, men who were themselves transformed by these sometimes intense spiritual experiences. The conversions of people, communities, and cultural practices that led to this dramatic episode all occurred in a rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context. In The Catholic Calumet, historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines interactions between Jesuits and Algonquian-speaking peoples of the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country, including the Illinois and Ottawas, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Leavelle abandons singular definitions of conversion that depend on the idealized elevation of colonial subjects from "savages" to "Christians" for more dynamic concepts that explain the changes that all participants experienced. A series of thematic chapters on topics such as myth and historical memory, understandings of human nature, the creation of colonial landscapes, translation of religious texts into Native languages, and the influence of gender and generational differences demonstrates that these encounters resulted in the emergence of complicated and unstable cross-cultural religious practices that opened new spaces for cultural creativity and mutual adaptation.
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The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and neighborhood chapels, wayside shrines, and mountaintop crosses dot the landscape. Catholicism also permeates the traditional cultures of rural communities, although this ideational influence is less immediately obvious. It is often couched in enigmatic idiom and imagery, and it is further obscured by the vestiges of pagan customs and the anticlerical attitudes of many villagers. These heterodox tendencies have even led some observers to conclude that Catholicism in rural Mexico is little more than a thin veneer on indigenous practice. In Mary, Michael, and Lucifer John M. Ingham attempts to develop a modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture, an interpretation that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy. Drawing on field research in Tlayacapan, Morelos, a village in the central highlands, he shows that nearly every domain of folk culture is informed with religious meaning. More precisely, the Catholic categories of spirit, nature, and evil compose the basic framework of the villagers' social relations and subjective experiences.
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The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from within. In his revision of American Catholicism, Monsignor Ellis has added a new chapter on the history of the Church since 1956. Here he deals with developments in Catholic education, with the changing relations of the Church to its own members and to society in general, and especially with arguments for and against the ecumenical movement brought about by Vatican Council II. The author gives an updated historical account of the part played by Catholics in both the American Revolution and the Civil War, and of the difficulties within the Church that came with the clash of national interests among Irish, French, and Germans in the nineteenth century. He regards immigration as the key to the increasingly important role of American Catholicism in the nation after 1820. For contemporary America, the author counts among the signs of the mature Church an increase in Church membership, the presence of nine Americans in the College of Cardinals in May, 1967, and the expansion of American effort in Catholic missions throughout the world.
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THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC church is a remarkable institu tion. Its people worship in numbers that dwarf figures from elsewhere. It has one of the most vibrant of Cath olic school systems, perhaps the most vibrant. It is by and large an obedient church, some would say docile controversies of recent years notwithstanding. It is a church characterized by great loyalty to the pope and by unstinting financial generosity to Rome. Still, the Ameri can church is a church in transition. There has been ero sion in areas of church life. Yet more is likely. The vii viii PREFACE American Catholic church, in sum, is a ready-made sub ject for analysis and study. When this book project on American Catholicism was first broached, no particular time urgency seemed to be involved. In recent years, nuns and priests had ex ited the religious life by the thousands, and their ranks were not being refilled. Many seminaries and convents had been closed for lack of need, then sold off to meet the financial imperatives of the respective religious com munities. The administration of Catholic hospitals in several cities had been turned over to lay boards, and a few Catholic colleges had shut their gates. A number of Catholic publications had disappeared from view, and in many Catholic parishes, focuses shifted, often to ac tivities of apostolic inconsequence, as emphases drained away from diocesan schools, very many of which had closed for good.
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Ellis, John Tracy was born on July 30, 1905 in Seneca, Illinois, United States. Son of Elmer Lucian and Ida Cecilia (Murphy) Ellis.
AB, St. Viator College, 1927. A.M., Catholic University America, 1928. Doctor of Philosophy, Catholic University America, 1930.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Catholic University America, 1978. Student, Sulpician Seminary, Washington, 1938. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Mount Mary College, 1954.
Doctor of Laws, University Notre Dame, 1957. Doctor of Laws, Belmont Abbey College, 1960. Doctor of Laws, Fordham University, 1972.
Doctor of Laws, University Southern California, 1983. Doctor of Laws, St. Anselm College, 1985. Doctor of Laws, Manhattan College, 1985.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Loyola College, Baltimore, 1960. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Portland, 1969. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Florida, 1973.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Marquette University, 1974. Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. Vincent College, 1979. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, 1989.
Ordained priest Roman Catholic Church, 1938. Professor history St. Viator College, 1930-1932, College St. Teresa, 1932-1934. Instructor history Catholic University American, 1938-1941, assistant professor, 1941-1943, associate professor, 1943-1947, professor church history, 1947-1964, visiting professor, from 1976.
Professor church history University San Francisco, 1964-1976. Professorial lecturer church history Catholic University American, from 1977. Visiting professor Brown University, 1967, University Notre Dame, 1970, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1970-1971, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, 1974-1975, Angelicum University, Rome, 1976.
Consultant committee for observance bicentennial National Conference Catholic Bishops, 1973-1976.
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Author: Anti-Papal Legislation in Mediaeval England, 1066-1377, 1930, Cardinal Consalvi and Anglo-Papal Relations, 1814-1824, 1942, The Formative Years of the Catholic University of America, 1946, The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1834-1921, 2 vols, 1952, American Catholicism, 1956, review edition, 1969, Documents of American Catholic History, 1956, review edition, 1962, 67, American Catholics and the Intellectual Life, 1956, A Guide to American Catholic History, 1959, John Lancaster Spalding, First Bishop of Peoria, American Educator, 1962, Perspectives in American Catholicism, 1963, Catholics in Colonial America, 1965, A Committment to Truth, 1966, Essays in Seminary Education, 1967, Faith and Learning: A Church Historian's Story, 1988. Editor, contributor: The Catholic Priest in the United States: Historical Investigations, 1971, Catholic Bishops: A Memoir, 1983. Managing editor Catholic History Review, 1941-1963.
Advisory editor, from 1963.
Fellow American Benedictine Academy (1969). Member American Catholic History Association (president 1969), American Society Church History (president 1969), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary), Delta Epsilon Sigma (honorary), Phi Alpha Theta (honorary).