The Parochial Enterprise: Financing Institutional Growth in the Brick-and-Mortar Era
The parochial expansion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries placed substantial financial demands on the Catholic community. Focusing on developments within the city of Philadelphia and its burgeoning urban neighborhoods, this article explores the strategies church officials and loca...
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2010
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American catholic studies
Jahr: 2010, Band: 121, Heft: 3, Seiten: 1-24 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The parochial expansion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries placed substantial financial demands on the Catholic community. Focusing on developments within the city of Philadelphia and its burgeoning urban neighborhoods, this article explores the strategies church officials and local parishes developed to fund their extensive building projects. As the pace and scale of parish growth increased, old methods proved inadequate in raising the sums needed to sustain brick-and-mortar ambitions. In contrast with the incremental growth of earlier periods, church leaders came to capitalize on the strength of centralized diocesan authority and strong parochial loyalty to support large-scale projects. By the early twentieth century, parochial fundraising had reached a new level of coordination and maturity, a trend highlighted by the career of Daniel B. O'Loughlin, a charismatic campaign manager who worked extensively in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia during the 1910s and 1920s. The steady demand for his services demonstrates the increasingly influential role that professional expertise came to play in parish fundraising. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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