Not exact matches
Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary
historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also
known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the
local and diocesan church.
Locals knew of the tablets, but no one else did until Josef Guter, a German
historian and China specialist, came upon them two years ago.
Parkway was
known as the «school without walls,» because students learned about journalism at
local newspapers, auto mechanics at auto shops, and art from museum
historians.
The farmhouse he bought with his wife, Jean, in 1980 had a history with Lucy's legend, but he didn't
know that till years later when he sat down for breakfast with a longtime
local historian who told him Lucy's story and showed him a leather satchel filled with recollections, newspaper articles, and letters about her, gathered over the years.
Did You
Know: According to
local historians, O'Fallon's Rock Spring Seminary was the first college of its kind to be founded in Illinois.
It has been conventionally defined as a period extending from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, or alternatively, from about 1300 to about 1850, although climatologists and
historians working with
local records
no longer expect to agree on either the start or end dates of this period, which varied according to
local conditions.