Click here to read or download the first article–and here for the second article.
Continue reading “My two articles on Vietnamese Catholic refugees”
Continue reading “Marianism during decolonization in Indochina”
I am getting to the last volume of a Catholic periodical from South Vietnam, and it includes news items about a three-and-a-half-week training on translating the Bible. It was held during Mach 1974 in Dalat and at the Alliance Evangelical Center (Trung Tâm Tin Lành Alliance), commonly known as the Villa Alliance at the time.
Continue reading “Catholic-Protestant relations in South Vietnam: competition to collaboration?”
I’ve just returned from the Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR), held this time at Saint Mary’s College across the road from University of Notre Dame. Here are the highlights from each day.
Continue reading “The 11th triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious”
This is a follow-up to my post on my dissertation advisor’s new book. Fr. Bill Miscamble told me that he expected his biography of Fr. Hesburgh won’t please many people, and now we have a good example in Kenneth Woodward’s review in Commonweal.
Continue reading “Panel on Wilson Miscamble’s biography of Fr. Ted Hesburgh”
I wrote the last post about the beginning of Cursillo to South Vietnam, and this one is about the beginning of the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima. Both occurred during the 1960s around the Americanization of the Vietnam War. Catholics in the Philippines were instrumental to the establishment of Cursillo in South Vietnam. When it comes to the Blue Army, however, it was the initiative of a Vietnamese then studying in the U.S., followed by eager assistance from the Americans, Australians, etc. and eager participation among Vietnamese Catholics.
Continue reading “The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima in South Vietnam”
Continue reading “Cursillo in South Vietnam: the Filipino connection”
Association of Asian Studies, Annual Conference, Denver
March 22, 2019 @ 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Silver, Tower Bldg.; Mezzanine Level
Continue reading “Abstracts of panel on Vietnamese Catholicism at AAS 2019”
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