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I am a Catholic historian and author. Here you will find brief posts - (nearly always less than a three-minute read) - a quick but insightful story or personal observation, an introduction of a little-known character or story from the past, or a reminder of a long-forgotten event. A wide variety - at times educational, informative, newsy, comical, or trivial (stuff you can confidently bring up at a cocktail party), but always a nice diversion!
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Education:
AA, Liberal Arts, Robert Morris College
BA, Social Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
MA, Theology, Duquesne University (including coursework at St. Joseph’s College of Maine)
Social Justice Certificate, University of Dayton;
Certificate in Catholic Theology of Morality and Ethics, University of Notre Dame.
Online instructor for the University of Notre Dame Satellite Theology Program (STEP) from 2014-2022, and as Pastoral Associate and Dir. of Social Ministry at a large suburban Pittsburgh parish from 2017-2020. Prior to those two experiences spent 40 years in the corporate insurance world.
VP of the Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Our website is https://www.chswpa.org/
Writing experience includes news columns for OSV Newsweekly, essays in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Oxford Review, and Dappled Things.org., Crisis Magazine; historical research pieces in Gathered Fragments; and academic papers in the journal Marian Studies and in Dorothy Day and the Church (Solidarity Hall, 2016).
My first book was The Remarkable Life of Bishop Bonaventure Broderick: Exile, Redemption, and a Gas Station (Serif Press, 2022) and the second was a compilation of his newspaper columns The Wit and Wisdom of Bishop Bonaventure Broderick: His Millbrook Round Table Columns. Nearing publication is a biography of Father Edward Vattmann, the first Catholic US Army chaplain appointed following the Civil War and a close friend to William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt.
Contact me at jimhanna52@comcast.net
