James A. Corcoran and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary – Overbrook, 1871-1907
Respected by many of his contemporaries for his erudition, Roman educated James A. Corcoran (1820-1889) was ordained in 1842 for the Diocese of Charleston, where he served in several parishes, helped publish Bishop John England's works, edited the U.S. Catholic Miscellany, and taught at Charles...
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American Catholic Historical Society
1999
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American catholic studies
Year: 1999, Volume: 110, Pages: 49-69 |
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| Summary: | Respected by many of his contemporaries for his erudition, Roman educated James A. Corcoran (1820-1889) was ordained in 1842 for the Diocese of Charleston, where he served in several parishes, helped publish Bishop John England's works, edited the U.S. Catholic Miscellany, and taught at Charleston's seminary. Corcoran also served as a theological advisor to several Provincial Councils of Baltimore and was the only American theologian to work on the preparatory sessions for Vatican Council I (1869-70). In 1871 Archbishop James Wood of Philadelphia invited Corcoran to join the faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary - Overbrook, recently relocated to a new building. Corcoran, as a faculty member at Overbrook from 1871 until his death in 1889, provides a window into the texture of seminary life in America in the late nineteenth century. Corcoran's influence on faculty, students, and seminary life at Overbrook was significant. His mild disposition, his encouragement of scholarship, his personal integration of the love of learning and the desire for God, his founding of the scholarly journal American Catholic Quarterly Review in 1876, substantially influenced the atmosphere at St. Charles Borromeo and the next generation of seminary professors, up to the Papal pronouncements of 1907, which radically redirected the tone and quality of seminary formation. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
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