Fr. Rene Kollar, O.S.B.

Dean, Saint Vincent College School of Humanities and Fine Arts

Professor of History

 

Education: 

  • B.A., Saint Vincent College 
  • M.Div., Saint Vincent Seminary 
  • M.A., University of Maryland 
  • Institute of Historical Research, University of London 
  • Ph.D., University of Maryland 
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society  (F.R.Hist.S.)

Teaching and Research Areas:  English History; Ecclesiastical History; Modern Ireland; Historical Methods. 


Current Projects:  Fr. Rene is currently working on a series of articles and a projected book on anti-convent literature in England and Ireland during the nineteenth century. 


Publications. 

Books:                                                                                                            

“Abbot Aelred Carlyle.”  The Welsh Connection, Scan Film, Spring 1983, for BBC Wales.

 

Westminster Cathedral: From Dream to Reality.  Edinburgh:  F & L Publications, 1987. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal,

      chapter 10.

 

Westminster Cathedral: From Dream to Reality.    Paperback Edition, 1988.

 

The Return of the Benedictines to London: The History of Ealing Abbey From 1896 to Independence. Tunbridge Wells

      (England):   Burns and Oates, 1990.

 

Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Caldey Island, and the Anglo-Catholic Revival in England, American University Studies, Series VII:

      Theology and Religion. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1995.

 

A Universal Appeal: Aspects of the Revival of Monasticism in the West in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries. San Francisco:

       Catholic Scholars Press, 1996.

 

Searching for Raymond:  Anglicanism, Spiritualism, and Bereavement between the Two World Wars.  Lanham, Maryland:

       Lexington Books, 2000.

 

Articles and Book Reviews:

“Anglo-Catholicism in the Church of England, 1895-1913:  Abbot Aelred Carlyle and the Monks of Caldey Island.”

       Harvard Theological Review  76  (April 1983):  205-24. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 5.

 

“The Influence of the Anglican Benedictines on Ronald Knox.”  The American Benedictine Review  34  (October 1983):

       317-28.

 

“The Oxford Movement and the Heritage of Benedictine Monasticism.”  The Downside Review 101 (October 1983):  281

     -90. Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 1.

 

“The Archives of Ealing Abbey, London:  1896-1947.”  Catholic Archives  4  (Spring 1984):  48-52.

 

“Lord Halifax and Monasticism in the Church of England.”  Church History  53  (June 1984):  218-30. Reprinted in A

      Universal Appeal, chapter 7.

 

Review of Hensley Henson:  A Study in the Friction Between Church and State, by O. Chadwick.  In The American

      Historical Review  89  (October 1984): 1080.

 

Review of The Vision Glorious:  Themes and Personalities of the Catholic Revival in Anglicanism, by G. Rowell.  In The

      Catholic Historical Review  70  (October 1984):  609-10.

 

“The Opposition to Ritualism in Victorian England.”  Irish Theological Quarterly  51  (January 1985):  63-74.

 

Review of The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century, by Edward Norman.  In Albion  17  (Spring 1985):  94-

     96.

 

“The Caldey Monks and the Catholic Press:  1905-1913.”  Recusant History  17  (April 1985):  287-98.  Reprinted in A

      Universal Appeal, chapter 9.

 

Pax: An Early Ecumenical Journal.”  The Heythrop Journal  26  (July 1985):  294-309.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal,

      chapter 8.

 

“A Question of Authority:  The Anglican Nuns of West Malling.”  Studia Monastica 27  (1985):  133-56. Reprinted in A

      Universal Appeal, chapter 3.

 

“Archbishop Davidson, Bishop Gore, and Abbot Carlyle.”  In Studies in Church History:  Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic

      Tradition,  377-96.  Edited by W. J. Sheils.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell, 1985.

 

“Dr. Pusey and Fr. Ignatius of Llanthony.”  The Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History  2  (1985):  27-40.  Reprinted in A

        Universal Appeal, chapter 2.

 

“Let My People Go:  History as Freedom in the Book of Exodus.”  In Keeping the Day, Contemplations of the Book of

      Exodus, A Festschrift Honoring Reverend Robert Vogelsang,  51-59.  Edited by William Stubbs.  Allison Park, PA: 

     Pickwick Publications, 1985.

 

“The American Sanctuary Movement and the English Legal Tradition.”  The Clergy Review  70  (November 1985):  411-14.

 

“Ealing:  The Proper and Respectable London Suburb.”  Local History  (May 1985):  22-24.

 

“Conversions to Roman Catholicism and the Challenge to Ecumenism.”  Journal of Ecumenical Studies  23  (Spring 1986):

      276-80.

 

“Odyssey of an Abbot.”  Church Times (London),  29 August 1986.

 

Review of From Controversy to Co-Existence:  Evangelicals in the Church of England, 1914-1980, by Randle Manwaring.

       In The American Historical Review  91  (October 1986):  930.

 

“Bishops and Benedictines:  The Case of Father Richard O’Halloran.”  Journal of Ecclesiastical History  38  (July 1987):

       362-85.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 12.

 

“The Return of the Benedictines to London.”  Tjurunga 33 (September 1987):  36-51.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal,

      chapter 11.

 

“Anglican Brotherhoods and Urban Social Work.”  Churchman  101  (1987):  140-45.

 

“Westminster Cathedral:  From Dream to Reality.”  The Friends of Westminster Cathedral  (Autumn 1987).

 

Review of Lighten Their Darkness:  The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860, by Donald Lewis.  In

      Albion  19  (Fall 1987):  457-59.

 

“Freedom Through Discipline:  Benedictine Education.”  The Priorian 116 (1987):  15-18.

 

“Bishops and Benedictines:  The Case of Father Richard O’Halloran.”  Millhilliana   (1988):  21-32.  (Reprinted from Journal

      of Ecclesiastical History).

 

“American Fundamentalism:  The Prophetic Conscience of America.”  Priests and People  2  (March 1988):  61-64.

 

Review of So Near and Yet So Far:  Rome, Canterbury, and ARCIC, by Hugh Montefiore.  In Journal of Ecumenical

      Studies  25  (Summer 1988):  474-75.

 

Review of Britain and the Vatican During the Second World War, by O. Chadwick.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies  25

       (Fall 1988):  632-33.

 

Mitchell, Sally, ed. Victorian Britain:  An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.,  1988.  S. v.  “Religious

      Orders.” 

 

“Ritualism and Anti-Ritualism.”  In Victorian Britain:  An Encyclopedia.

 

“Herbert Vaughan.”  In Victorian Britain:  An Encyclopedia.

 

Review of Westminster, Whitehall, and the Vatican:  The Role of Cardinal Hinsley 1935-43, by Thomas Maloney.  In The

      Heythrop Journal  30  (January 1989):  112-14.

 

Review of The Five Wounds of the Church, by Antonio Rosmini.  In Theology  92  (March 1989):  134-37.

 

“The English Benedictines and the Convert Monks of Caldey.”  Tjurunga 37 (September 1989):  37-43.

 

Müller, Gerhard, ed. Theologische Realenzykopädie.  Berlin, New York:  Walter de Gruyter, 1990.  S. v. “Konversion.”

 

“Archbishop Lang, Archbishop Temple, and the Origins of the 1939 Report.”  The Christian Parapsychologist  8  (June

      1990):  204-08.

 

Joint Review of The Emmaus Report:  A Report of the Anglican Ecumenical Consultation Which Took Place at the Emmaus

     Retreat Centre, West Wickham, Kent, England, 27 January - 2 February, 1987. in Preparation for ACC-7, Singapore,

      1987, and the Lambeth Conference 1988;   Highways and Hedges:  Anglicanism and the Universal Church:  Many Gifts,

     One Spirit -- Report of ACC-7:  Singapore 1987, by J. Howe; Rene Keeping the Faith:  Essays to Mark the Centenary

     of Lux Mundi, by G. Wainright, ed.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies  26  (Summer 1990):  567-68.

 

Review of The Secret World of Opus Dei, by Michael Walsh.  In Theology  (July/August 1990):  312.

 

Review of Breakthrough:  The Emergence of the Ecumenical Tradition,  by Robert S. Bilheimer.  In Journal of Ecumenical

     Studies  27  (Winter 1990):  135-36.

 

Review of Anglo-Catholicism:  A Study in Religious Ambiguity,  by W. S. F. Pickering.  In Church History  60  (March

      1991):  145-46.

 

“The Reluctant Prior:  Bishop Wulstan Pearson of Lancaster.”  Recusant History  20  (May 1991):  403-13.  Reprinted in A

      Universal Appeal, chapter 13.

 

“Bishop Charles Grafton’s Dream for Religious Life in the American Episcopal Church:  The Influence of the Monastic

      Revival in the Church of England.”  Studia Monastica  33  (1991):  133-43.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter

      15.

 

“The 1897 Lambeth Conference and the Question of Religious Life in the Anglican Communion.”  Cistercian Studies

      Quarterly  26  (December 1991):  319-29.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 4.

 

Review of Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity by Stephen McGrade, ed.  In Church History  61  (March

      1992):  138-39.

 

Review of Robert Runcie, by Adrian Hastings.  In Anglican Theological Review  74  (Spring 1992):  248-50.

 

“The 1913 Caldey Island Property Inquiry:  The Convert Monks and the Question of Ownership.”  Revue Bénédictine  102

      (Spring 1992):  208-26.

 

Review of God’s February:  A Life of Archie Craig 1888-1985, by Elizabeth Templeton.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies

      29  (Spring 1992):  266.

 

Review of Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850, by Richard Brown.  In Albion  24  (Summer 1992):  334-35.

 

“Monks, Pilgrims, and the Attractions of Caldey Island in the Time of Aelred Carlyle.”  Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical

      History  9  (1992):  52-63.

 

“Plans for an Eighteenth Century Benedictine Settlement in Western Pennsylvania:  Bishop Carroll and the English

      Benedictine Congregation.”  In Word and Spirit:  Aspects of Monasticism in America, 3-11.  Petersham, Massachusetts:

      Saint Bede’s Publications, 1992.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 14.

 

“Pope Leo XIII, Merry Del Val, and the Converts’ Aid Society.”  Australasian Catholic Record  69  (October 1992):  487

     -91.

 

“Ritualism in a Gloucestershire Village:  Anglican Monks, Clergymen, and the Parishioners of Lower Guiting.”  Tjurunga 43 

     (November 1992):  65-81.  Reprinted in A Universal Appeal, chapter 6.

 

Review of The Celtic Vision.  Prayers from the Outer Hebrides, by Esther de Waal, ed.  In Cistercian Studies Quarterly  28

      (1993):  13.

 

“The Anglo-Catholic Campaign against Revision of the Book of Common Prayer.  The Hickleton Conference of 1911.”

      Studia Liturgica  23 (1993):  194-206.

 

“Anglican Benedictine Monks and a Roman Catholic Liturgy:  The Relationship between Worship and Doctrine.”  Ecclesia

      Orans  10 (1993):  183-99.

 

Review of Patronage and Piety.  The Politics of English Roman Catholicism, 1850-1900,  by Dermot Quinn.  In Albion  25

     (1993):  721-22.

 

Review of The Age of Disraeli 1868-1881,  by Richard Shannon.  In The Historian 56 (1993): 150-51.

 

Joint Review of  The Diversity of Religions:  A Christian Perspective,  by J. A. DiNoia;  Christian Theology and Inter

     -religious Dialogue,  by Maurice Wiles.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies 30 (1993): 483.

                                                                                                                       

Review of The Last of the Prince Bishops:  William Van Mildert and the High Church Movement of the Early Nineteenth

      Century,  by E. A. Varley.  In The American Historical Review 99 (1994):  563.

 

Review of The Monk’s Tale.  A Biography of Godfrey Diekmann, by Kathleen Hughes.  In Cistercian Studies Quarterly 29

      (1994): 41-42.

 

“The Demise of the American Educational System and a Traditional Response: Benedictine Monastic Values.”  Providence:

      Studies in Western Civilization 2 (1994):  321-32.

 

“Charles Gore and Anglican Religious Communities.”  Louvain Studies 19  (Summer 1994): 163-79.

 

Review of Joy in the Struggle:  Personal Memoirs of Ecumenical Dialogue, by Edward W. Jones, ed.  In Journal of

      Ecumenical Studies 31 (1994): 359.

 

“The Anglican Benedictines and Rescue Work among the City Youth of England.” In Word and Spirit: The Monastery and

      the City, 82-94. Petersham, Massachusetts: Saint Bede’s Publications, 1994.

 

“Plans for an Eighteenth Century Benedictine Settlement in Western Pennsylvania: Bishop Carroll and the English Benedictine

      Congregation.” St. Vincent  29 (Winter 1995): 13-15.  (Reprinted from Word and Spirit: Aspects of Monasticism in

      America).

 

Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History, St. Vincent Archabbey,

      Spring 1995.

 

Joint Review of On the Way to Fuller Koinonia: Official Report of the Fifth World Conference on Faith and Order by

      Thomas F. Best, ed. ; and Returning Pilgrims: Insights from British and Irish Participants in the Fifth World Faith and

       Order Conference, Santiago de Compostela, 3-14 August 1993.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies 32 (1995):  283-84.

 

“A Question of Monastic Independence:  Caldey Island’s Status as an Ecclesiastical Peculiar in the Early Twentieth

      Century.”  The Journal of Welsh Religious History  3 (1995):  54-65.

 

Review of Total Community.  The Monks of Caldey Island, by Roscoe Howells.  In The Journal of Welsh Religious History

      3 (1995): 98-100.

 

“William Temple’s Views on Life after Death:  An Anglican Eschatology for the Twentieth Century.”  Journal of Religion and

      Psychical Research 18 (October 1995):  208-214.

 

Müller, Gerhard, ed.  Theologische Realenzykopädie.  Berlin, New York:  Walter de Gruyter, 1995.  S. v. “Anglikanische

      Orden.”

 

Review of The Stripping of the Altars.  Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580, by Eamon Duffy.  In The Catholic

      Historical Review  82 (January 1996):  93-95.

 

Fritze, Ronald H. and Robinson, eds. Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689. Westport, Connecticut:

      Greenwood Press, 1996. S. v. “Congregationalism.”

 

“George Fox.” In Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.

 

“Quakers.” In Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.

 

“Recusancy.” In  Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689.

 

Review of The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England:  A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults, by Susan J. Ridyard.

      In Cistercian Studies Quarterly 31 (1996):  381.

 

Review of Gothic Rage Undone.  English Monks in the Age of Enlightenment, by Geoffrey Scott.  In Cistercian Studies

      Quarterly 31 (1996):  382.

 

Review of Newman on Being a Christian,  by Ian Ker.  In Cistercian Studies Quarterly 31 (1996):  383.

 

Review of The Spiritual Journey of Newman,  by Jean Honoré.  In Cistercian Studies Quarterly 31 (1996):  383-84.

 

Review of Faith and the Human Enterprise.  A Post-Vatican II Vision,  by Rembert Weakland.  In Cistercian Studies

      Quarterly 31 (1996):  384-85.

 

Review of The Education of an Archbishop.  Travels With Rembert Weakland,  by Paul Wilkes.  In Cistercian Studies

      Quarterly 31 (1996):  385-87.

 

Review of Charlotte Brontë.  A Passionate Life, by Lyndall Gordon. In The Historian  59 (Summer 1996): 903-04.

 

“‘A Monk in Court’:  An Example of Religious Intolerance in Late Nineteenth Century England.”  The American Benedictine

      Review 47 (December 1996):  358-384.

 

Review of Alexander Forbes:  The First Tractarian Bishop, by Rowan Strong.  In The American Historical Review 102

      (December: 1996):  1541-1542.

 

Review of Receiving the Vision:  The Anglican-Roman Catholic Reality Today:  A Study by the Third Standing Committee of

      the Episcopal Diocese of Ecumenical Officers and the National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers, by David

      Bird, E. Rozanne Elder, R. William Franklin, Joan McGuire, Dennis Mikulanis, Emmanuel Sullivan.  In Journal of

      Ecumenical Studies 33 (1996): 577-78.

 

“Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History.” In 1966 Good

      Shepherd (Dorby´ Pastier), 99-103.  Edited by Anne Kremenik.  Middletown, PA:  Jednota Press, 1996. Reprint of

      Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History, Saint Vincent

      Archabbey, Spring 1995.

 

Review of Faith and Family.  The Life and Circle of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, by Margaret Pawley.  In The Heythrop

      Journal 38 (April 1997): 231-32.

 

Review of Westminster Cathedral 1895-1995, by Peter Doyle.  In The Heythrop Journal 38 (July 1997):  344-45.

 

“Ealing Abbey Centenary.  The First Half:  1897-1947.”  The Priorian  125 (1996-97):    3-6.

 

Review of Glorious Battle.  The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism, by John Shelton Reed.  In Albion 29

     (Summer 1997):  322-23.

 

“Prophecy, Anglicanism, and the Great War:  The Archbishop of Canterbury and Joanna Southcott’s Sealed Box.” Dutch

     Review of Church History 78 (1998):  94-112.

 

“The English Benedictine Congregation and the Establishment of Ealing Abbey in London.”  English Benedictine History

      Symposium 1998 16 (1998):  1-18.

 

Joint Review of Schools of Reconciliation:  Issues in Joint Roman Catholic-Anglican Education, by Priscilla Chadwick; The

       Search for Unity:  Relations between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches from the 1950’s to the 1970’s, by

      William Purdy.  In Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35 (Spring 1998):  281-82.

 

Review of Cardinal Vaughan:  Archbishop of Westminster, Bishop of Salford, Founder of the Mill Hill Missionaries, by

      Robert O’Neil.  In The Catholic Historical Review 84 (July 1998):  564-65.

 

“Bishop William Ullathorne and His Defense of Convents:  The 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of Convents.” 

     Tjurunga  55  (November 1998):  75-90.

 

Review of Accommodating High Churchmen.  The Clergy of Sussex, 1700-1745, by Jeffrey S. Chamberlain.  In The

      American Historical Review 103 (December 1998):  1590-91.

 

“A Welsh Bishop and a Monastic Brotherhood:  The Case of Bishop John Owen, the Anglican Benedictine Monks, and the

      Role of Episcopal Authority.”  The Journal of Welsh Religious History 6 (1998):  45-55.

 

“An Early Attempt at an Anglican Congregation of Religious Orders:  The Anglican Benedictines and the Society of the

      Sacred Mission.”  Studia Monastica 40 (1998):  329-41.

 

“The Origin of the Report.”  In Spiritualism:  The 1939 Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 5-10.  Edited by Michael

      Perry.  Louth, Lincolnshire:  The Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, 1999.  (Reprinted from The

      Christian Parapsychologist).

 

Review of Paths to Renewal.  The Spirituality of Six Religious Founders, by Zachary Grant.  In Cistercian Studies Quarterly

      34 (1999):  278.

                       

“The Church of England and Joanna Southcott:  The Revelation of Her Secret Writings in 1927.”  The Journal of Religion

      and Psychical Research 22 (April 1999):  68-82.

 

Review of Nineteenth-Century Anglican Theological Training:  The Redbrick Challenge, by David A.  Dowland.  In Albion

     31 (Spring 1999):  134-35.

 

“Spiritualism and Religion.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Critique of Christianity and Roman Catholicism and a Roman Catholic

      Response.” Recusant History 24 (May 1999):  397-413.

 

Review of Monks of England:  The Benedictines in England from Augustine to the Present Day, by D. Rees, ed.  In The

      American Benedictine Review 50 (June 1999):  235-25.

 

“Aelred Carlyle.”  Ealing Abbey Magazine, July 1999.

 

Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History. Revised version, Saint

      Vincent Archabbey, Summer 1999.

 

Review of The Size of Chesterton’s Catholicism, by David W. Fagerberg. In Church History 68 (December 1999):  1028

     -30.

 

Review of The Unknown Pope.  Benedict XV (1914-1922) and the Pursuit of Peace, by John F. Pollard.  In The Heythrop

      Journal 41  (January 2000):  131-32.

 

Review of Church, State and Propaganda:  The Archbishop of York and International Relations, A Political Study of Cyril

      Foster Garbett, 1942-1955, by Dianne Kirby.  In The Catholic Historical Review 86  (April 2000):  353-54.

 

Review of Singing God’s Praises.  The First Sixty Years, by A. Marr and A. Newsom, eds.  In The American Benedictine

      Review 51 (June 2000): 233-35.

 

Johnston, William, ed. Encyclopedia of Monasticism vol 2. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers:  Chicago, 2000.  S. v. “Wimmer,

     Boniface, OSB (1809-1887).”

 

Review of From Without the Flaminian Gate:  150 Years of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales 1850-2000, by V.

      Alan McClelland and Michael Hodgetts, eds.  In The Catholic Historical Review 86 (October 2000):  696-97.

 

Review of Mission to America:  A History of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the First Benedictine Monastery in the United States,

      by Jerome Oetgen.  In The Catholic Historical Review 87 (January 2001):  122-24.

 

Walsh, Michael, ed.  Dictionary of Christian Biography.  London:  Continuum, 2001.  S. v.“Carlyle, Aelred.”

 

“Sheen, Fulton J.”  In Dictionary of Christian Biography.

 

“Spellman, Francis.”  In Dictionary of Christian Biography.

 

“Wimmer, Boniface.” In Dictionary of Christian Biography.

 

“They Walled Up Nuns, Didn’t They?  Montezuma’s Daughter and Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England.”  The Downside

       Review  119 (July 2001):  157-76.

 

Review of Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain 1830-1910, by Nigel Yates.  In Albion 33 (Summer 2001):  341-42.

 

“Two Lectures at Bath:  The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and the Nunnery Question.”  Revue

     d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 96 (2001):  372-90.

 

Review of Bede Griffiths:  A Life in Dialogue, by Judson B. Trapnell.  In The Catholic Historical Review 88 (April 2002): 

     381-82.

 

Review of Britain’s First Worker-Priests.  Radical Ministry in a Post-War Setting, by John Mantle.  In The Heythrop Journal

      43 (July 2002):  403-04.

 

“Foreign and Catholic:  A Plea to Protestant Parents on the Dangers of Convent Education In Victorian England.”  History of

      Education. 31 (July 2002):  335-50.

 

“Those Horrible Iron Cages:  The Kilburn Sisters and the Management or Mismanagement of Orphanages in Late Victorian

      England.”  The American Benedictine Review. 53 (September 2002):  264-84.

 

Review of Pulling Down the Devil’s Kingdom.  The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain, by Pamela J. Walker.  In The

      Heythrop Journal 43 (October 2002):  529-30.

 

“Travels in America:  Abbot Aelred Carlyle, Anglican Benedictine Monasticism and His America ‘Allies.’” Project

      Canterbury [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/essays/kollar]. April 2003.

 

“Education Based on the Rule of St. Benedict.”  Momentum.  The Official Journal of the National Catholic Educational

       Association.  April/May 2003, 56-59.

 

“The Silence Surrounding the Attempted Assassination of Abbot Boniface Wimmer, Founder of Saint Vincent Archabbey

      and College.”  Westmoreland History. 3 (April 2003):  38-42.

 

“A Death in the Family:  Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, The Rights of Parents, and Anglican Sisterhoods in the Diocese of

      London.”  Journal of Religious History. 27 (June 2003):  198-214.

 

Review of The London Way of Death, by Brian Parsons.  In The Historian 65 (Summer 2003):  1050-51.

 

Review of Ampleforth.  The Story of St Laurence's Abbey and College, by Anselm Cramer.  In The American Benedictine

      Review 54 (June 2003):  231-33.

 

Review of Say Little, Do Much:  Nurses, Nuns, and Hospitals In the Nineteenth Century, by Sioban Nelson.  In The

      Historian 65 (Fall 2003):  1195-96.

 

Saint Vincent Archabbey and Its Role in the Development of Slovak-American Culture and History. Second revised edition,

      Saint Vincent Archabbey, Fall 2003.

 

Review of Episcopalianism In Nineteenth-Century Scotland, by Rowan Strong.  In Albion 35 (Fall 2003): 556-57.

 

“An Anglican Sisterhood and Auricular Confession:  A Popish Practice in a Devonport Sisterhood.”  Sewanee Theological

      Review. 47 (Christmas 2003):  33-52.

 

“Centuries-Old Rule Still Relevant Today:  Education Based on the Rule of Saint Benedict.” Quarterly: A Saint Vincent

      College Publication, Winter 2004, 11-13. (Reprinted from Momentum.  The Official Journal of the National Catholic

      Educational Association. April/May 2003, 56-59).

 

Review of Fortress Church.  The English Roman Catholic Bishops and Politics 1903-63, by Kester Aspden.  In The

      Heythrop Journal 45 (July 2004):  394-95.

 

“Flowers, Pictures, and Crosses:  Criticisms of Priscilla Lydia Sellon's Care of Young Girls.” Anglican Theological Review.

      86 (Summer 2004):  451-71.

 

“Magdalenes and Nuns:  The Convent Enquiry Society and the Critique of Convent Laundries in Late Victorian England.”

      Anglican and Episcopal History. 73 (September 2004):  309-34.

 

Harrison, Brian, ed. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.  S.v. “Bourne,

      Francis Alphonsus, (1861-1935).”

 

“Dolling, Robert William Radcliffe, (Father Dolling), (1851-1902)” revision. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

 

“Lyne, Joseph Leycester (Father Ignatius), (1837-1908).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

 

“Tait, Catharine, (1819-1878).” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

 

Reviewer for Choice (3). 


Courses Fall 2004: 

History 302: Research Project for Senior Majors

Courses Spring 2005: 

History 220: The Devil and the Problem of Evil in the Western World


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