They are in chronological order:
- “Kinh hòa bình” [Peace Prayer] (1960) by Kim Long
- “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace” (1967) by Sebastian Temple
- “Peace Prayer” (1976) by John Foley, SJ
In New York City for a conference on Vietnam studies, I took the training northward after the conference and spent a working day at the Maryknoll Mission Archives (MMA). My purpose was to take a preliminary look at some documents about Asian American Catholics, mostly during the twenty-year period that followed the Second World War and preceded the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
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Books in history and, more generally, the humanities are held in much higher regard than articles, and it’s part of my job to read a lot of them. But I generally prefer reading articles over books. One reason is that articles allow for a feel about subject matters beyond your field. Another reason is that it doesn’t take as much time to read them as you do books. (AI, of course, may eventually change all that.)
Continue reading “Five recent history articles albeit not in Vietnam Studies”Previous posts on “recent articles” include one from 2016 and two from 2019. This one is on the following articles:
- Ryan Wolfson-Ford, “The Partitioning of Laos: Lost Voices from both sides of the Mekong River in 1893 and the creation of modern Laos,” The Journal of Lao Studies 8 (December 2024): 1-21.
- Duong Van Bien, “The Global Catholic Missionary Societies and the Spread of Marian Devotion in Pre-Twentieth-Century Vietnam,” Manusya: Journal of Humanities (2024): 1-20.
Continue reading “Vietnamese nationalism in a popular hymn about the Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Continue reading “A nineteenth-century Vietnamese account of the Lourdes apparitions”
The Vietnamese Catholic ethnic press reported widely on this congress but there is hardly anything in English. I am appreciative of Fr. Linh Hoang, OFM (Siena College), who attended the event and filed the write-up below along with the photos.
Continue reading “The 2019 biennial congress of Vietnamese priests in the U.S.”
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