Spiritans and education.(Congregation of the Holy Ghost)

Catholic New Times | February 29, 2004| | Copyright

We Spiritans have been involved in education for a long time. In 1703 our founder Father Claude Poullart des Places established a house in Paris for the education of poor seminarians and laid the cornerstone of what eventually became the Congregation, of the Holy Ghost.

In the following century the Congregation was heavily oriented to grass roots missionary work but its interest in education continued. Between 1832 and 1882 a total of 31 seminaries and colleges (not to mention trade and agricultural schools) came under the direction of the Spiritans. Among the best ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

What's so bad about being poor?
Magazine article from: National Review ; ...people who talk about poverty have ever been poor. The diminishing supply of the formerly poor in policy-making and policy-influencing positions is a side effect of progress. The number of poor households dropped dramatically from the beginning...
Burning of popular fear: the way we define the poor is a reflection of the kind of society we live in, argues Zygmunt Bauman.
Magazine article from: New Internationalist ; `THE poor will always be with us'; so insists popular...even what they do, the expectation that the `poor will always be with us' can hardly be faulted...of society must and should cope with. The poor of different times and places differ between...
Inventing the poor: how the early church practiced charity.(Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, by Peter Brown)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century ; ...that the growing gap between the rich and poor is the most elemental problem facing the...economy. But the gap between the rich and the poor is also a very old problem. Princeton historian...Brown takes up this issue of care for the poor as it was practiced in the fourth and fifth...
The poor and disabled in early eighteenth-century Russian towns.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History ; ...better off. Sometimes called the structural poor, these unfortunates were incapable of earning...charity. The second group (the conjunctural poor) included the able-bodied who had fallen...considerable difficulty in determining who was poor. For one thing, until relatively recent...
Not So Poor: The luxury of American poverty.(Census Bureau definitions too wide)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review ; ...the typical American defined by the government as poor has a car, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a...government's own surveys of the living conditions of the poor. The surveys indicate that most poor Americans today are better housed, better fed...
Call for an authentic "Church of the poor".(Vatican)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight ; ...Catholic Church should be a Church of the poor that practises a preferential but not exclusive...well to note that this preference for the poor is in no way exclusive but embraces all...that gives preferential attention to the poor, seeking to share time and resources in...
Common Ground: Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies ; ...Eighteenth-Century English Satiric Fiction and the Poor. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. $45.00. IN...relationship between the gentle class and the poor in the eighteenth century, and how that...the contact between the gentry and the poor. Previous to this important study, the...
Hurricane's Legacy: "A Year of Hunger and Suffering for Haiti's Poor".(Hurricane George )(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter ; Haitian Bishops Pleads for Help on Behalf of the Poor -- Food For The Poor Solicits Support from American Catholics Few Haitian...any of your losses. This has been the plight of our poor. The night of the hurricane has come, and its darkness...
Stiffing the poor.(government measures affect poor adversely)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century ; ...out, the disparity between the rich and poor today is greater than it was in the Depression...one in which war can be declared on the poor themselves--in the form of policies that...disparity between the very rich and very poor. One of the latest attacks on the poor...
John Paul II and the church of the poor.(Church Notes)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Catholic New Times ; ...II reminded a group of Philippine bishops of their service to the poor. The Pope began his remarks with the first priority: being the Church of the poor. Being a Church of the poor, the Pope stated, echoes the first Beatitude 'Blessed are the poor...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Spiritans and education.(Congregation of the Holy ..."