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Faculty Publications: Rev. David J. Endres, Ph.D.

Displays the publications of faculty members from the Athenaeum of Ohio/Mt. St. Mary's Seminary.

Rev. David J. Endres, Ph.D., Dean of Mount St. Mary's Seminary and the Athenaeum of Ohio

Professor of Church History and Historical Theology

Editor of US Catholic Historian.

A regular contributor to Catholic Digest and The Catholic Telegraph.

A Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati: The Catholic Church in Southwest Ohio, 1821-2021. Milford, Ohio: Little Miami Publishing Co, 2021.

American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I through Vatican II. Eugene, OR.: Pickwick Publications, 2010.

“An International Dimension to American Anticommunism: Mission Awareness and Global Consciousness in the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade, 1935-1955.” U.S. Catholic Historian 24, no. 2 (2006): 89–108.

“An Ohio ‘Holy Joe’: Chaplain William T. O’Higgins’ Wartime Correspondence with Archbishop Purcell of Cincinnati, 1863.” Ohio Civil War Genealogy Journal 13, no. 2 (June 2009): 73–78.

(Contributor and Co-editor). Antistite nostro: The Episcopal Ministry in the Life of the Local Church. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2024.

(Editor). Black Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2021.

“Caritas.” Edited by Mehmet Odekon. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2006.

“Catholic Campaign for Human Development.” Edited by Mehmet Odekon. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2006.

"Consolation's Many Faces: Ethnic Intersections at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation," in American Patroness: National Shrines to Mary and the Making of US Catholicism, edited by Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park, 139-158. New York: Fordham University Press, 2024.

“Coughlin, Father Charles.” Edited by Mehmet Odekon. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2006.

“Dan Lord, Hollywood Priest.” America 193, no. 19 (December 12, 2005): 20.

‘Father, Aren’t You Afraid I’ll Become Muslim?’: The Challenge of Encountering Non-Christian Religions.Homiletic & Pastoral Review (December 27, 2012).

 Forty years together in Christ: a history of Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church of Fairfield, Ohio, 1957-1997. Hamilton, OH: American Printing, 1997.

"God's Beggar and Builder: Father Francis Koch, OFM, and the Growth of the Church in Northern New Jersey," in Essays on New Jersey Catholic History: In Commemoration of the 350th Anniversary of the Founding of the New Jersey Colony (New Jersey Catholic Historical Commission, 2016), 95-108.

“Healy, Rev. Sherwood.” Edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

History of the Lauer and Bohr families. [Fairfield, Ohio] (2450 Clara Bea Lane, Fairfield 45014): D.J. Endres, 1994.

Homilies for April 2018.” Homiletic & Pastoral Review (March 27, 2018).

"Homilies for May 2015." Homiletic & Pastoral Review (April 27, 2015).

“Homilies for Sunday liturgies and feasts : Feb 6 through Feb. 27.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 111, no. 4 (January 2011): 33–38.

Introduction to Letters to My Lord, by Daniel A. Lord, S.J., xiii-xviii. 1969. Reprint, Notre Dame, IN: Christian Classics/Ave Maria Press, 2016.

“Know-Nothings, Nationhood, and the Nuncio: Reassessing the Visit of Archbishop Bedini.” U.S. Catholic Historian 21, no. 4 (2003): 1–16.

“Making Truth Attractive: Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., Hollywood Priest and Playwright.” Religious Life 36, no. 4 (August 2012): 6–7.

Many Tongues, One Faith: A History of Franciscan Parish Life in the United States. Oceanside, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2018.

(Editor). Native American Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

“New York City Draft Riot (1863).” Edited by Junius P. Rodriguez. Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2007.

“On the rebirth of holy names.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review 109, no. 1 (October 2008): 44–48.

“Rectifying the Fatal Contrast: Archbishop John Purcell and the Slavery Controversy Among Catholics in Civil War Cincinnati.” Ohio Valley History 2, no. 2 (March 2002): 23–33.

“Religious Vocations.” Edited by George Thomas Kurian. The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

(Editor). Remapping the History of Catholicism in the United States: Essays from the U.S. Catholic Historian. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2017.

“Response to Reviews.” U.S. Catholic Historian 29, no. 2 (2011): 29–30.

“Rivers, Rev. Clarence Joseph.” Edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

“Roman Catholicism.” Edited by James Ciment. Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2007.

(Editor). Slavery and the Catholic Church in the United States: Historical Studies. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023.

“Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.” Edited by Mehmet Odekon. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2006.

(Editor). Conyngham, David Power. Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text: The Heroism of Catholic Chaplains and Sisters in the American Civil War. Edited by David J. Endres and William B. Kurtz. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.

St. Teresa of Avila, 1916-2016: A Parish History. Cincinnati, OH: St. Teresa of Avila Church and School, 2016. (co-authors: Ray Grothaus and Michael Bidwell)

Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: The History of Anti-Catholic Violence in the U.S." Homiletic & Pastoral Review (August 11, 2014).

“‘Take the Word of God to the Heart of the City’: Cincinnati’s Catholic Bible Center Apostolate, 1964-1971.” U.S. Catholic Historian 30, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 15–34.

“The Elder Family: Intergenerational Slaveholding in Early American Catholicism." Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 90, no. 3 (Summer 2023).

“The Global Missionary Zeal of an American Apostle: The Early Works of Daniel A. Lord, S.J., 1922-1929.” U.S. Catholic Historian 24, no. 3 (2006): 39–54.

“The Legacy of Thaddeus Yang.” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 34, no. 1 (2010): 23-28.

"Three Cheers for the Union": Catholic Chaplains and Irish Loyalty during the American Civil War." The Catholic Historical Review 108, no. 1 (2022): 92-117.

“To the Suburb, in the City, and with the Community: The Changing Loci of Mid-Twentieth-Century Franciscan Parishes.” U.S. Catholic Historian 37, no. 4 (Fall 2019): 53–76.

“U.S. Catholic Conference.” Edited by Mehmet Odekon. Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 2006.

“Uncles, Rev. Charles Randolph.” Edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The African American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

"With a Father's Affection: Chaplain William T. O'Higgins and the Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry." U.S. Catholic Historian 31, no, 1 (Winter 2013): 97-127.

"Without Guide, Church, or Pastor: The Early Catholics of Cincinnati, Ohio." Ohio Valley History 18, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 3-22.

"What Does Islam Believe about Jesus and His Death?” Catholic Digest 81, no. 8 (September 2017): 27.

"What Medicine Could Not Cure: Faith Healings at the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation, Carey, Ohio," U.S. Catholic Historian 34, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 25-49.