Our Lady of Perpetual Help, gender roles, and the decline of devotional Catholicism. From: Journal of Social History | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: Kelly, Joseph; Kelly, Timothy | COPYRIGHT 1998 Journal of Social History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Pittsburgh Catholics participated in a devotion to the religious icon Our Lady of Perpetual Help (a painting of Madonna and child) beginning in the late nineteenth century. Participation, high during the 1930s and 1940s, began a rapid decline in the 1950s. This article argues that the decline reflected a changed religious sensibility, a shift in ideology. The devotion inculcated Catholics, especially females, with the belief that women should seek to navigate the temporal world through Mary (...

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