Catholic Parish Life in the Antebellum South: Columbus, Georgia, 1830-60
Catholicism in the South is rarely studied, nor is how Catholicism is experienced on the parish level. This essay explores both using sources from one typical southern parish, Holy Family Parish, Columbus, Georgia. This particular parish and locale serve as a window to address various more universal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Catholic Historical Society
2002
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American catholic studies
Year: 2002, Volume: 113, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 1-30 |
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| Summary: | Catholicism in the South is rarely studied, nor is how Catholicism is experienced on the parish level. This essay explores both using sources from one typical southern parish, Holy Family Parish, Columbus, Georgia. This particular parish and locale serve as a window to address various more universal questions, namely: ethnicity, race, evangelization, nativism, piety, lay trusteeism, priestly identity. What surfaces is the relationship between Catholics and Protestants, between Catholic culture and southern culture, between bishops and priests, between priests and people. Also what is seen as how the frontier shaped the texture of parish life in ways unlike the ethnic urban parishes of the Northeast. On the southern frontier parish life was characterized by "priest-less Sundays," because Catholics were scattered in small numbers miles from the parish church. Priests had to travel long distances throughout the wilderness searching out and gathering their flock. Catholicism was sustained by this kind of priestly visitation, and depended upon lay leadership in the form of lay trustees and the domestic church. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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