Catholic historians' group honors books by two priest-authors

Published: 2006-01-11

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- The American Catholic Historical Association honored two priest-authors Jan. 7 during its annual meeting in Philadelphia. Jesuit Father Stephen Schloesser received the association's John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book, "Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1939," published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. Dominican Father Augustine Thompson received the Howard R. Marraro Prize for "Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325," published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, also in 2005. Each award carries a $750 prize. Father Schloesser holds the chair in Catholic social thought in the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco and is an associate professor of history at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Father Thompson is an associate professor of religious studies and history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

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