Women and the Church
Scope and Contents
Material culture and pamphlets that document the Liturgical Movement and changes in religious life in the American Catholic Church from the early twentieth century through the implementation of the Second Vatican Council's reforms in the 1960s and 1970s. The collection contains artifacts of many kinds, including badges, bookmarks, candles, chalices, chaplets, crosses, crucifixes, holy water containers, jewelry, key rings, medals, money clips, monstrances, pins, plaques, relics, rosaries, scapulars, sick call sets, statues, vestments, and altar textiles.
Dates
- Creation: undated
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1926 - 1968
Creator
- From the Collection: Leonard, William J. (1908-2000) (Compiler, Person)
Language of Materials
This collection is mostly in English, with some materials in French, German, Italian, Latin, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovenian, and Spanish.
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Full Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 container)
Digitized
Digitized at the Internet Archive (PicklistBC_LiturgyandLife_Women):
On Mother's Day.
Catholics and citizenship / by Thomas O'Doherty and The influence of women in Catholic Ireland / by J.S. Sheehy.
Mother's little helper : twelve heart-to-heart talks of a mother to her daughter : in three parts.
What women should know about men / Thomas E. Tobin.
Baby in a shoebox / by Mary Lanigan Healy.
Facts about the change of life / Hugh J. O'Connell.
Does modesty still matter? / John L. Thomas.
Money : worry, working wives, wealth-- and heaven.
Letters and addresses on woman suffrage by Catholic ecclesiatics / compiled by Margaret Hayden Rorke.
Is the Church woman's enemy? : marriage and the newer freedom for women.
The heart of a holy woman / by Timothy Brosnahan.
Who obeys, you or your child? / Thomas E. Tobin.
New horizons for the women religious : address / by His Holiness Pope Paul VI, September 8, 1964 ; translation prepared ... by Austin Vaughn.
On the importance of women / H. Morin.
The equality of women : a Catholic view / by Mary G. Hawks.
Eve on her own : straight talks to women who work / by "Bernadette".
The Church and working women : a series of Lenten lectures delivered in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Limerick / by Rev. L. McKenna.
Woman's duties in social and political life. With discussion club outline by Gerald C. Treacy.
A call to Catholic women for the apostolate of works of love / by Richard Cardinal Cushing.
Repository Details
Part of the John J. Burns Library Repository
John J. Burns Library
Boston College
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