THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
LECTURES
The lectures sponsored by the Society over the years of its existence include:
Date
1940
July 8
First
general
meeting
September
16
Second
general
meeting
December 9
Quarterly
meeting
1941
January 6
Business
meeting &
luncheon
March 10
Quarterly
meeting
Speaker
Topic
Location
Rev. John A. Canova,
Archivist of Diocese of
Pittsburgh and Pastor of St. John
the Baptist Parish, Monaca
Rev. Hugh Wilt, O.S.B.,
Professor of History, Saint
Vincent College, Latrobe
Rev. Felix Fellner, O.S.B.,
Archivist of Saint Vincent
Archabbey, Latrobe
Rev. Felix Fellner, O.S.B.,
Archivist of Saint Vincent
Archabbey, Latrobe
John O’Connor, Jr.,
Assistant Director of Fine Arts,
Carnegie Institute, Oakland
Rev. John J. Hannon,
Assistant Pastor of Nativity
Parish, North Side
Rev. William J. Purcell,
Administrator of St. Charles
Parish, Donora
Diocesan Historical Records
Rev. John A. Canova,
Archivist of Diocese of
Pittsburgh and Pastor of St. John
the Baptist parish, Monaca
Most Rev. Hugh C. Boyle,
Bishop of Pittsburgh
History of Monaca
Most. Rev. Hugh C. Boyle,
Bishop of Pittsburgh
Topics: membership, Constitution and
By-Laws, Membership Committee
campaign
Keystone
Hotel,
Downtown
Rev. John M. Lenhart,
O.F.M. Cap., Archivist of St.
Augustine Monastery,
Lawrenceville
Rev. Anthony M. Benedik,
Pastor of St. Cyril Parish, North
Side and Chairman of Society’s
Membership Committee
The Relations of the Capuchin Friars
to Western Pennsylvania Prior to 1816
Synod Hall
St. Joseph’s
Hall,
Mount
Mercy
College
Purposes and Aims of a Catholic
Historical Society
Catholic Historical Research
Reminiscences and Little-known Data
of the Area’s Early Religious Life
Synod Hall*
Memorial to Msgr. Lambing
Notes and Observations on Writing
Parish History
Synod Hall
Parish history: “The Mission on Seven
Mile Road” [The Old Log Church of
Mount Carmel, New Derry]
Two types of civilization in the book,
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio, &
possible restoration of Mt. Carmel log
cabin as a diocesan shrine
Outline of Membership Campaign
2
July 14
Quarterly
meeting &
First
Annual
Founders
Day
Program
1942
January 26
General
meeting
May 25
Quarterly &
Second
Annual
Founders
Day
Program
September
28
Quarterly
meeting
1943
February 1
Quarterly
meeting
May 3
General
meeting
September
27
Quarterly
meeting
1944
March 20
Quarterly
meeting
May 22
Quarterly
meeting
October 8
Quarterly
meeting
1945
April 23
Quarterly
meeting
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
Society President
Frederick W. Reis, Jr., Esq.,
of Bellevue and past State
Deputy of Knights of Columbus
President’s Message: The Significance
of History
The Laymen’s Part in Compiling
Diocesan History: Development of
Catholicity in Allegheny County as
Found in Wills Probated 1795-1843
Synod Hall
Rev. Felix Fellner, O.S.B.,
Archivist of Saint Vincent
Archabbey, Latrobe
Mrs. T. S. O’Connor of
Sheraden, writer and liturgical
student
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
Society President
Phases of Catholicity in Western
Pennsylvania During the Eighteenth
Century
Tara Hill: Seedling of the Faith in the
Homestead District
Synod Hall
Rev. Edward J. Joyce,
Assistant Pastor of St. James
Parish, Wilkinsburg
The Historical Value of a Centenary
Observance
Synod Hall
Rev. Jacob B. Shinar,
Assistant Pastor of St. Jerome
Parish, Charleroi
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
Society President
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
Society President
Little Known Figures in Early
Diocesan History
Synod Hall
Benedict J. Kaiser, architect
Architecture in the Pittsburgh Diocese
Some Historical Anecdotes concerning
the Diocese
Synod Hall
Rev. Mieceslaw W. Drelak,
Pastor of St. Cyprian Parish,
North Side
Very Rev. Joseph A.
Kushner, Pastor of St. Dominic
Parish, Donora
Rev. Michael J. Hegerich,
Pastor of SS. Peter & Paul
Parish, East End
Rev. Salvatore J. Federici,
C.S.Sp. Professor History,
Duquesne University
The Contribution of the Polish People
to the Development of the Diocese
Synod Hall
Early Slovak Settlements and Parishes
in the Pittsburgh Diocese
Synod Hall
A Conspectus of the Old Cathedral
Duquesne
University
Library
Sister M. Cornelius
Meerwald, R.S.M., historian
and Archivist of Sisters of
Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy in the Diocese
for a Century
Rev. Anthony P. Scholz,
Pastor of St. Mary Parish, Pine
Creek
Synod Hall
Four Mighty Bishops of Yore &
President’s Address
Report on work already outlined on
the symposium history book
Three Little-Known Characters in
Early Diocesan History
Synod Hall
Brief History of Duquesne University
St. Joseph’s
Hall, Mount
Mercy
College
3
October 9
Quarterly
meeting &
Election of
Officers
1946
March 15
Quarterly
meeting
June 10
Quarterly
meeting
September
15
Annual
Meeting &
Election of
Officers
December 9
Quarterly
meeting
1947
March 24
Quarterly
meeting
September
29
Annual
meeting &
Election of
Board
Members
December 3
Rev. Quentin Schaut, O.S.B.,
Professor of English, Saint
Vincent College, Latrobe
The Conversion of Cardinal Newman
Synod Hall
Rev. Thomas J. Quigley,
Superintendent of Schools,
Diocese of Pittsburgh
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
former Society President and
Pastor of St. Lawrence O’Toole
Parish, Garfield
George Carver, Litt.D.,
Professor of English, University
of Pittsburgh
Rev. E. Charles Patterson,
Assistant Pastor of St. Catherine
Church, Beechview
Rev. John A. Canova, Society
Archivist, Archivist of Diocese
of Pittsburgh, and Pastor of St.
John the Baptist Parish, Monaca
Rev. Felix Fellner, O.S.B.,
Archivist of Saint Vincent
Archabbey, Latrobe
Rev. Hugh Wilt, O.S.B.,
Professor of History, Saint
Vincent College, Latrobe
Rev. Anthony M. Benedik,
Pastor of St. Cyril Parish, North
Side
Elizabeth Daflinger,
Society Treasurer and Associate
Editor of The Pittsburgh
Catholic
Formation of a Historical Honor
Society for Catholic High School
Students
A Resume of the Activities of the
Historical Society during the First Five
Years of Its Existence
Synod Hall
Rev. Francis S. Clifford,
Pastor of St. Scholastica Parish,
Aspinwall
Rev. James A. Byrne, Pastor
of St. Patrick Parish, Brady’s
Bend
History of St. Alphonsus Church,
Murrinsville
Synod Hall
The Centenary of Catholicity in
Brady’s Bend Parish
Synod Hall
Msgr. Andrew J. Pauley,
Rector of St. Paul Cathedral
Rev. Carlo Rossini, C.PP.S.,
Organist and Choirmaster of St.
Paul Cathedral
Rev. E. Charles Patterson,
Pastor of St. Victor Parish,
Bairdford
Solemn Mass
Lecture and Tour of St. Paul Cathedral
Choral concert
John Henry Cardinal Newman
St. Charles Borromeo and His Role in
the Council of Trent
Synod Hall
Display of Father Canova’s collection
of Vatican coins and medals
The Life of Abbot Boniface
The History of St. Vincent’s and the
Role of the Benedictines in the Religious
History of Pennsylvania
Builder Brothers of the Diocese
St. Vincent
Archabbey,
Latrobe
Synod Hall
Display of pictures from the Madonna
collection
Solemn Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament
St. Paul
Cathedral
4
1948
February 17
Cosponsored
with
University
Catholic
Club
May 24
Quarterly
meeting
September
26
Annual
meeting &
Election of
new Board
Members
1949
May 9
Spring
Quarterly
meeting
October 8
Quarterly
meeting
1950
March 9
Quarterly
meeting
1951
March 1
Quarterly
meeting
September
24
Annual
meeting &
election of
Directors
1952
May 22
Ross J. S. Hoffman, Ph.D.,
Chairman of History Dept.,
Graduate School, Fordham
University
The American Republic and Western
Christendom
Stephen
Foster
Memorial,
Oakland
Rev. Stephen C. Gulovich,
Ph.D., S.T.D., Chancellor of
Greek Rite Diocese of Pittsburgh
and Faculty member of Dept. of
Philosophy, Duquesne
University
Brother E. Anthony, F.S.C.,
Principal of Central Catholic
High School, Oakland
Unwanted People
Synod Hall
History of the Christian Brothers
Central
Catholic
High School
Presentation of honorary life
membership to Coadjutor Bishop John
F. Dearden
Rev. Justin Krellner, O.S.B.,
Professor at Saint Vincent
College, Latrobe
Rev. Augustus O. Reitan,
C.S.Sp., Assistant National
Director of Holy Childhood
Association
Rev. Albert H. Waible,
C.Ss.R., Vice-postulator of the
Cause of Ven. John Neumann,
C.Ss.R., fourth bishop of
Philadelphia
The History of the Greek Text of the
Bible
The Life and Work of Bishop
Neumann
Synod Hall
Very Rev. Matthew H.
Meighan, C.Ss.R., Rector of St.
Philomena Monastery, Squirrel
Hill
The Redemptorists in Western
Pennsylvania
Synod Hall
Rev. Thomas B. Lappan,
Pastor of St. Athanasius Church,
West View
Rev. Augustus O. Reitan,
C.S.Sp., Assistant National
Director of Holy Childhood
Association
Rev. Joseph G. Findlan,
Secretary of Catholic Charities
The Apostolate of Charity
Rev. Paul E. Campbell,
The Secular and Religious History of
Synod Hall
Technicolor film “Alaska”
Exhibit of colored pictures of:
(1) Dedication of Society’s Archives &
(2) November 1 ceremonies at St. Mary
of Mercy Church
The History and Work of the Catholic
Charities in the Diocese of Pittsburgh
St. Mary of
Mercy
Church Hall,
Downtown
St. Paul
Cathedral
High School
Byzantine
5
Quarterly
meeting
Pastor of St. Lawrence O’Toole
Parish, Garfield
Pittsburgh
September
24
Rev. Demetrius Dumm,
O.S.B., Professor of Sacred
Scripture, Saint Vincent
Seminary, Latrobe
The Bible
Augustus O. Reitan, C.S.Sp.,
Assistant National Director of
Holy Childhood Association
Film: Out of the Darkness
(Irish/African)
St. Mary of
Mercy
Church Hall,
Downtown
Most Rev. Coleman F.
Carroll, Auxiliary Bishop of
Pittsburgh and Pastor of Sacred
Heart Parish, Shadyside
John O’Connor, Jr., former
Assistant Director of the
Carnegie Institute, Oakland
Rev. Francis A. Glenn,
Assistant Pastor of Resurrection
Parish, Brookline
Rev. John LaFarge, S.J.,
Associate Editor of America,
New York
Welcome
Sacred Heart
School
Auditorium,
Shadyside
1954
January 24
Quarterly
meeting &
election of
Directors
March 28
Quarterly
meeting
April 30
October 3
Quarterly
meeting
1955
February 27
Quarterly
meeting
April 21
First
Annual
Lambing
Lecture
1956
April 17
Second
Annual
Lambing
Lecture
1963
October 13
1984
Rev. Francis A. Glenn,
Archivist of Diocese of
Pittsburgh
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J.
Pauley, Rector of St. Paul
Cathedral
Catholic
Seminary,
North Side
St Mary of
Mercy
Church Hall,
Downtown
Rev. Thomas O’Connor, C.P.
Pius X and the Diocese of Pittsburgh
The Causes of Social Peace
Synod Hall
The Cathedrals of the Diocese of
Pittsburgh:
First and Second Cathedrals 18431903
Synod Hall
The Present Cathedral
Rev. Vincent P. Brennan,
Executive Secretary of the
Pittsburgh Catholic
Mason Wade, Director of the
Canadian Studies Program and
Associate Professor of history,
University of Rochester
Catholic Journalism in Western
Pennsylvania 1754-1954
Ralph A. Klinefelter, Ph.D.,
Pittsburgh Catholic columnist &
former Public Relations Director
of Duquesne University
The Catholic Schools in the Pittsburgh
Diocese
Synod Hall
Rev. E. Charles Patterson,
Pastor of Blessed Sacrament
Parish, Natrona Heights
Msgr. Francis A. Glenn,
Historian, Diocese of Pittsburgh
The Life of Bishop John Neumann
St. Mary
Auditorium,
St. Mary of
Mercy
Church
The French in Western Pennsylvania
Bishop John Neumann
Duquesne
University
Library
Synod Hall
6
October 21
1985
April 21
October 6
1986
February 2
April 20
Lambing
Lecture
1987
March 19
April 26
Lambing
Lecture
October 11
1988
March
1990
April 22
October 14
1991
March 3
April 14
Msgr. Francis A. Glenn,
Pastor of St. Paul Parish, Butler
The Early History of the Pittsburgh
Diocese, especially the Work of
Historian Msgr. A. A. Lambing
Clyde Piquet, Mayor of
Industry (Beaver County)
Russell Gibbons, Director of
Communications for United
Steelworkers of America and
labor historian
Catholicism in Beaver County
Mary Downey James, Master
Catechist, Diocese of Pittsburgh
& author of CCD history
Msgr. Charles Owen Rice,
labor priest and pastor of St.
Anne Parish in Castle Shannon
The History of the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine in the Diocese of
Pittsburgh
Church and Labor in Western
Pennsylvania
Panel:
Sr. Anna Mary Gibson,
R.S.M., Archivist of Mercy
Hospital
Rev. Edward F.
McSweeney, Archivist of
Diocese of Pittsburgh
William Englert, V.P.,
Allegheny Valley Hospital
Blanche G. McGuire, Society
Board member
Most Rev. William G.
Connare, retired Bishop of
Greensburg and Administrator of
Diocese of Greensburg
Lois Calloway, Ph.D.
candidate at University of
Pittsburgh
Synod Hall
The Common Roots of Religion and
Labor
Synod Hall
History of Mercy Hospital
Record Groups of the Archives of
Diocese of Pittsburgh
Genealogy
Catholic Colonial History of
Pennsylvania and Maryland
Faith Roots in Greensburg – History of
the Diocese of Greensburg
Sisters All: Ethnic Diversity and
Religious Solidarity
St. Joseph
Church,
Bloomfield
Mary Wohleber, Troy Hill
historian
St. Anthony Chapel, Troy Hill
Rev. Henry A. Szarnicki,
Pastor of Holy Family Parish,
Lawrenceville & author of
biography of Bishop O’Connor
Sister Cecilia Murphy,
R.S.M., Ph.D., Director of Field
Education, Saint Vincent
Seminary
Bishop O’Connor, First Bishop of
Pittsburgh
Duquesne
University
Bishop Domenec, Second Bishop of
Pittsburgh and only Bishop of Allegheny
Synod Hall
Msgr. Charles Owen Rice,
labor priest and retired Pastor of
St. Anne Parish, Castle Shannon
Rev. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.,
Professor of Church History,
The Role of Catholic Social Teaching
in the Formation of the Catholic Radical
Alliance
Black Catholics in the United States
Synod Hall
Synod Hall
7
September
21
1992
February 29
Cosponsored
with
Duquesne
U.
March 8
April 26
October 11
1993
February 21
April 18
Cosponsored
with
Religious
of Diocese
of
Pittsburgh
October 3
Saint Meinrad Seminary, Indiana
Most Rev. James Malone,
Bishop of Youngstown
Leslie W. Tentler, Ph.D.,
University of MichiganDearborn
Timothy Kelly, Ph.D.,
Professor of History, Saint
Vincent College, Latrobe
 Christopher Lee, collateral
descendant of Christopher
Columbus & director of the
Columbus Chapel, Boalsburg,
PA
Rev. John W. Kelly, C.Ss.R.,
Redemptorist Provincialate,
Baltimore
Sister Susan Jenny, S.C.,
Sisters of Charity (Seton Hill)
Rev. Demetrius Dumm,
O.S.B., Professor of Sacred
Scripture, Saint Vincent
Seminary, Latrobe and
Sister Clare Fitzgerald,
S.S.N.D., Ph.D., Chair of
American Studies Dept.,
Fairfield University, Connecticut
Sister Patricia Lynch, S.B.S.,
author of the history of the
Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
October 15
Anthony P. Joseph, Jr.,
Adjunct Professor of History,
Duquesne University
Sister Sally Witt, C.S.J.,
1994
February 6
100th Anniversary of Rerum Novarum
Synod Hall
Symposium: Sharing the Story:
American Catholicism in the 20th
Century
Handing On What We Received:
Church History in Local Context
Mellon Hall,
Duquesne
University
Pageants and Parades, Popular Public
Catholic Rituals
Synod Hall
Christopher Columbus
Synod Hall
St. John Neumann, Parish Priest at Old
St. Philomena’s Church 1842-1847
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Letters from the Present, and
Letters unto the Future
Our Lady of
Grace
Church
Auditorium,
Scott
Township
Mother Katherine Drexel, Founder of
the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Synod Hall
The Roman Catholic Diocese of
Pittsburgh: The Last 150 Years:
Bishop Tuigg and the Railroad Riots
of 1877
Duquesne
University
Student
Union
Sister Anna Mary Gibson,
R.S.M., Archivist of Mercy
Hospital
Paul J. Dvorchak, Director of
St. Joseph House of Hospitality,
Hill District
Rev. Joseph C. Scheib,
Chaplain to Sisters of Mercy,
Oakland
Father Cox and the Church of
Pittsburgh in the 1940s
Response of Religious Women to the
Needs of Immigrants to the Pittsburgh
Diocese
Letters of Reverend William F. X.
O’Brien, First Pastor of a Catholic
Parish in Pittsburgh
Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation
in the History of Roselia Foundling
Asylum and Maternity Hospital
Sister Margaret Carney,
O.S.F., S.T.D., General Superior
Clare of Assisi and Medieval Church
Women
8
April 17
October 2
1995
February 12
March 19
October 8
1996
February
April 20
Lambing
Lecture
October 6
1997
April 13
Lambing
Lecture
1998
February
March 23
April 19
October 11
1999
February 7
of the Sisters of St. Francis of
the Providence of God,
Whitehall
Most Rev. William J.
Winter, Auxiliary Bishop of
Pittsburgh
Nicholas Parrendo, President
of Hunt Stained Glass Studios
Anniversary Mass
History and Process of Stained Glass:
Its Liturgical Uses
St. Mary of
Mercy
Church
Synod Hall
Mike Aquilina, Editor of
Pittsburgh Catholic
Patrick G. D. Riley, lecturer
at Concordia University
(Wisconsin) and journalist
Msgr. Russell A. Duker,
Vicar General, Byzantine
Catholic Archeparchy of
Pittsburgh
Catholic Press
Rev. Kris D. Stubna, Vicar of
Education, Diocese of Pittsburgh
Most Rev. William J.
Winter, Auxiliary Bishop of
Pittsburgh
Catholic Schools: A Glimpse in the
Mirror of Time
 Rededication of the Archives of The
Catholic Historical Society of Western
Pennsylvania
Rev. Joseph C. Linck, C.O.,
Ph.D., Professor of Church
History, St. Vincent College and
Chaplain to college students,
Pittsburgh Oratory
Spiritual Counsel of Catholic
Homilists in Eighteenth Century
Maryland and Pennsylvania
Rev. Thomas R. Wilson,
Assistant Pastor of St. Bernard
Parish, Mt. Lebanon
St. Bernard Church
St. Bernard
Church, Mt.
Lebanon
Joseph F. Rishel, Ph.D.,
Professor of History, Duquesne
University
J. Philip Gleason, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of History,
Notre Dame University
History of Duquesne University
Synod Hall
Through Many Toils: The History of
Catholic Higher Education in the United
States
Rev. Edward M. Bryce,
Pastor of St. Bede Parish, Point
Breeze
Kenneth White, Archivist of
Diocese of Pittsburgh
Velma (Toni) M. Uricchio,
Fox Chapel
The Church responding to Roe v.
Wade through Twenty-Five Years
Student
Union
Building,
Duquesne
University
Synod Hall
Paul J. Dvorchak, Director of
St. Joseph House of Hospitality,
Hill District
Fr. William F. X. O’Brien, First
Resident Priest in Pittsburgh 1808-1820
Cardinal Wright
Synod Hall
Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
Synod Hall
Exhibit of local Catholic pro-life
activities
Experiences in the Peru Mission
Gumberg
Library,
Duquesne
University
Synod Hall
Synod Hall
9
May 16
October 17
2000
February
April
October
2001
April 9
October
2002
April 14
2003
March 30
October 19
2004
April 21
First
Cathedral
Centennial
Lecture
May 2
Lambing
Lecture
October 17
Glenn
Lecture
2005
Matthew Bunson, General
Editor of the Catholic Almanac
& author
Rev. Ivan L. Mina, Ph.D.,
Archivist of Byzantine Catholic
Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
Father Demetrius Gallitzin, the
Apostle of the Alleghenies
Blanche G. McGuire,
Society President
Catholic Roots in Early Pennsylvania:
A Quick Look at the Faith of Our
Ancestors in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Nineteenth Diocesan Synod
Rev. Lawrence A. DiNardo,
Vicar for Canonical Services,
Diocese of Pittsburgh
Kenneth J. Heineman,
Professor of History, Angelo
State University
The 175th Anniversary of the
Byzantine Catholic Archdiocese of
Pittsburgh
The Rise of Unions and the
Involvement of Catholics
Kathleen M. Washy,
Archivist of Mercy Hospital and
Society Board Member
Rev. John W. Kelly, C.Ss.R.,
Redemptorist Provincialate,
Baltimore
Mercy Hospital: A History of Caring
for the Community
Kerry A. Crawford,
Society Board Member and
author
History of the Benedictine Sisters of
Pittsburgh
Timothy I. Kelly, Ph.D.,
Professor of History, Saint
Vincent College, Latrobe
The Strange Case of Murray Kram:
Catholic Devotionalism and Direct Mail
Marketing in 1950s Pittsburgh
Craig T. Maier, Coordinator
for Special Projects, Diocese of
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh’s First Bishop and the
Dogma of 1854
Rev. James W. Garvey,
Pastor of the Church of the
Epiphany, Lower Hill District, &
Society Secretary
Paul J. Dvorchak,
Director of St. Joseph House of
Hospitality and Society Board
Member
John C. Bates, Esq.,
Chief Counsel, HUD and
Society Board member
Rev. Lawrence A. DiNardo,
Vicar for Canonical Services,
Diocese of Pittsburgh
Synod Hall
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss.R.
The Roots of St. Paul’s Cathedral:
Colonial and 19th Century Pittsburgh
St. Paul’s Cathedral on Grant Street
Synod Hall
Synod Hall
Rev. William F. X. O’Brien, First
Resident Priest in Pittsburgh at Old St.
Patrick’s
Urban Redevelopment and Its Impact
on the Catholic Church in the City of
Pittsburgh
Reorganization: Ten Years Later
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
Synod Hall
10
April 17
Lambing
Lecture
October 16
Glenn
Lecture
2006
April 19
Third
Cathedral
Centennial
Lecture
April 30
Lambing
Lecture
October 8
2007
April 22
October 14
Glenn
Lecture
2008
April 20
Lambing
Lecture
2009
April 25
Michael J. Aquilina,
Executive Vice President of St.
Paul Center for Biblical
Theology (Steubenville, Ohio)
and Society Board member
Kenneth M. Ogorek, Director
of Office of Catechesis, Diocese
of Pittsburgh and Society Board
Member
Pittsburgh Takes the Pledge: Fr.
Theobald Mathew’s Temperance
Crusade
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
The Lasting Positive Impact of
Pittsburgh’s Missionary Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine
Synod Hall
Sister Patricia McCann,
R.S.M., Archivist of Sisters of
Mercy
The Role of Women Religious in the
Development of Catholic Education in
the United States
Synod Hall
Greta Stokes Tucker,
Director of Office for Black
Catholic Ministries, Diocese of
Pittsburgh
Malek A. Francis, National
Chairman of American Lebanese
Congress, Pittsburgh
Black Catholics in Pittsburgh:
Endurance and Survival
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
Lebanese Immigration to the United
States and Western Pennsylvania
Synod Hall
Rev. James J. Chepponis,
Director of Office of Music
Ministry, Diocese of Pittsburgh
Robert P. Lockwood,
Director of Department for
Communications of Diocese of
Pittsburgh and General Manager
of Pittsburgh Catholic
From Organist to Pastoral Musician –
History of Church Music in the Catholic
Diocese of Pittsburgh 1843-2006
Catholic Urban Legends Come to
Pittsburgh
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
Kerry A. Crawford,
Society Secretary and author
Why Lourdes Matters to Western
Pennsylvania Catholics
Holy Spirit
Byzantine
Church Hall
Regis Flaherty, Director of
Gilmary Retreat Center,
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
Michael J. Aquilina,
Executive Vice President of St.
Paul Center for Biblical
Theology, (Steubenville, Ohio)
and Society Board Member
Rev. Mark Gruber, O.S.B.,
Ph.D., Professor of
Anthropology, Saint Vincent
College, Latrobe
Robert P. Lockwood,
Director of Communications of
Diocese of Pittsburgh and
General Manager of Pittsburgh
Catholic Writers Dinner:
The Influence of Western Pennsylvania
on Faith and Writing
The Write Stuff: The Influence of
Western Pennsylvania on Writing and
Faith
Pittsburgh’s Catholic Writers: A
Legacy of Faith
Top Ten Reasons for Being Catholic
in Western Pennsylvania
Celebration of Catholic Pittsburgh
Main
Ballroom,
Powers
Center,
Duquesne
University
11
Catholic
Susan Muto, Ph.D., Executive
Director of Epiphany
Association, Pittsburgh
2011
November
6
Growing Up Catholic in Beechview
Rev. Alvin K. Berkun,
Chairman of National Council of
Synagogues and Rabbi Emeritus
of Tree of Life Synagogue,
Squirrel Hill
Interfaith Relations: We’ve Come a
Long Way!
Room 210,
Domenec
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary
Rev. Peter P. Murphy, Pastor
of St. Alphonsus Parish,
Wexford
Bishop Michael O’Connor – From
Ireland to Pittsburgh
O’Connor
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary
Patricia McElligott, author
and member of Gaelic Arts
Society
Irish Pittsburgh
June 27
Rev. Mr. Michael P.
Conway, Pittsburgh seminarian,
Pontifical North American
College, Rome
 The Know Nothing Party and AntiCatholic Bias in West Virginia and
Southwestern Pennsylvania
October 6
Glenn
Lecture
Sr. Georgine Scarpino,
R.S.M., Ph.D., past president of
the Sisters of Mercy, Pittsburgh
The Rise and Fall of Faith-Based
Hospitals: The Allegheny County Story
Charles T. Strauss, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of History,
Mount Saint Mary’s University,
Emmitsburg, MD
Rev. John Hugo and Suburban Parish
Life in Cold War Pittsburgh
Most. Rev. William J.
Waltersheid, Auxiliary Bishop
of Pittsburgh
The Pontifical North American
College in Rome
2012
November
4
Glenn
Lecture
2013
April 28
Lambing
Lecture
2014
April 13
Lambing
Lecture
October __
Glenn
Lecture
O’Connor
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary
Domenec
Hall Dining
Room,
St. Paul
Seminary
O’Connor
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary
Room 210,
Domenec
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary
O’Connor
Hall,
St. Paul
Seminary