Author Archives: Dominic Candeloro

About Dominic Candeloro

Dominic Candeloro, 1401 Cleveland Avenue LaGrange Park, IL 60526 Candeloro@CasaItaliaChicago.org, dcandeloro@luc.edu 708-354-0952 Cell 847-951-910 http://tinyurl.com/candeloro 2012-13-Adjunct Prof. Italian American History, Loyola University Chicago 1981-present—Part-time volunteer program co-ordinator and librarian Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia 2001-2006 Executive Director, American Italian Historical Association 2005-----Co Director of the Exhibit “The Dream...per non dementicare” Archivio Centrale dello Stato-Roma 1995-2003 Special Assistant to the Mayor of Chicago Heights Director, Conferences/Workshops & Weekend College, Governors State University Adjunct Professor of History 1977-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Chicago.and Director of the "Italians in Chicago" Project, $300,000 NEH Grant (1979-1982). 1976-1977 Visiting Assistant Professor - History, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign. Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, History. Dissertation: ,Louis Freeland Post: Carpetbagger, Singletaxer, Progressive." J. Leonard Bates, Advisor. B.A. Northwestern University, 1982-1983 Fulbright Research Fellowship, Italy.

Preview–Anne Calcagno “The Absence of the Overarching Presence of Churches” Abstract

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Anne Calcagno --Dual Citizen

Anne Calcagno –Dual Citizen

“Calcagno’s creative paper explores being a Chicagoan living the absence of the overarching presence of churches in Italy, everpresent churches that were refuge and mystery. She will report on her struggles with some of the complications inherent in representing Catholicism in fiction (i.e: searching for verity from flawed characters). She will read a brief excerpt of a scene from her novel-in-progress STRUCK BY DINA, revealing the writer’s struggle.

Anne Calcagno is a dual national, who has written for the Italian paper la Repubblica, and has been anthologized in such Italian-American anthologies as; The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, The Penguin Book of Italian-American Writing; Don’t Tell Mama!, and Reconstructing Italians in Chicago; Thirty Authors in Search of Roots and Branches.

August 2013 Draft of Program for Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference

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Chicago Catholic Immigrants Conference:  The Italians

November 8-9, 2013

Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor

 Sponsored by the

Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage

 Friday November 8

9:00 Opening Session and Welcome

  • Dr. Mark Bosco, S.J. CCIH Director

  • President Michael Garanzini, S.J.

  • Senator Renato Turano

  • Silvio Marchetti or Italian Consul General

  • Joanne Spata (Casa Italia)

 9:30 Italians and Catholicism in the Late 19th Century

Anthony Cardoza, LUC

10:00 An Overview of Italian Neighborhoods and Churches in Chicago

Dominic Candeloro, Casa Italia

10:30 Chicago Italians and the Concordat of 1929:  Remembering the Work of Peter D’Agostino

Elfriede Wedam, LUC

11:00 “The Right of Man to Migrate”:  Catholic Social Thought and the Italian American Immigration Reform Movement, 1952-1965.

Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska, Omaha.

11:30 Italian-American Literature of Chicago and Catholicism

Mary Jo Bona, Stony Brook University

Respondent:  Gloria Nardini, University of Illinois, Chicago

12:30 Lunch Banquet (McCormick Lounge)

2:00 Calabrese Immigrants to Chicago

Giuseppe DeBartolo, University of Calabria, Arcavacata

2:30 Catholic Education and Assimilation

Al Gini, LUC

3:00 Italians Americans and the Chicago Area Project

Robert Lombardo, LUC

 3:30 Italian-American Religious Orders in the Development of Chicago Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Mother Cabrini and the Sisters of the Sacred Heart—-Ellen Skerrett

Father Luigi Giambastiani and the Servites—-Conrad Borntrager, OSM

The Scalabrinians—-Dominic Candeloro

4:30 Panel:  20th Century Italian-American Vocation Stories

Italian-American priests and nuns of Chicago

Fr. Pitzo

  • Fr. Belmonte

  • Fr. Dom Grassi

  • Fr. F?

  • Fr. C?

  • NUNS— 

5:30 Prosecco Reception

 

Saturday November 9

 9:00 Coffee Welcome

CCIH Director

9:30 Italian-American :

  • Fred Gardaphe’, Queens College

Susana Cavallo, LUC/John Felice Rome Center

  • Cristina Lombardi-Diop, LUC

  • Wiley Feinstein, LUC

  • Samuele Pardini, Elon Univeristy (Knock on Any Door)

11:00 Italian Catholic Culture in Literature:  Moderator:  Fred Gardaphe’

  • Tony Ardizzone

Tony Romano

Billy Lombardo

  • Frank Cicero

  • Anne Calcagno

  • Arthur Cola

 

12:30 Lunch Banquet:  (Palm Court)

1:30 Concurrent Sessions

I.  Parish History Round Table

  • San Rocco, Chicago Heights (Angelo Ciambrone, Former Mayor)

  • San Anthony of Padua, Roseland, CJ Martello

  • Assumption,

  • Our Lady of Pompeii,

 

II.  Contemporary Chicago Stories on Growing up Italian and Catholic

  • Loyola Students and Alumni:  Moderator, Anna Clara Ionta

3:00 Patron Saints and Religious Traditions

  • Feast of San Francesco di Paola

  • Santissima Maria Lauretana:

  • Our Lady of Mount Carmel

  • San Giovanni Bosco

 

4:30 Chicago Italian Catholicism for the 21st Century

Richard Fragomeni, Pastor of Our Lady of Pompeii

5:15 Concluding Remarks—Mark Bosco, S.J.

5:30 Sacred Liturgy in celebration of Italian American Heritage (MDS)

Fr. Garanzini, main celebrant. Assisted by Fr. August Feccia, CS

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Preview–Al Gini on Catholic Education

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Catholic Education and Assimilation–Abstract of presentation to be made on November 8

Al Gini LUC Quinlan School of Business

Al Gini LUC Quinlan School of Business

I remember my very first day of school in 1949. There were exactly sixty of us in Sister Edna’s class. We were a classroom of first and second-generation immigrant kids. We were petrified of St. Edna and, looking back on it now, she was probably even more afraid of us. Sister Edna had a three point pedagogical strategy: organization, discipline and absolute obedience. Talking was never allowed. Pushing, shoving of any kind was forbidden. Every day we did the Baltimore Catechism, math tables, spelling, and, of course, one full hour of the Palmer Method of Cursive Writing! St. Edna’s goals were clear: Catholicism, Literacy, and Assimilation. And achieve these goals, she did! 

 

Short Biography

Al Gini is a Professor of Business Ethics and Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago. He is also the co-founder and long-time Associate Editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For over twenty-six years he has been the Resident Philosopher on National Public Radio’s Chicago affiliate, WBEZ- FM, and he regularly lectures to community and professional organizations on issues of business and ethics. His books include: My Job My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (Routledge, 2000); The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations (Routledge, 2003); Why It’s Hard to Be Good (Routledge, 2006); Seeking The Truth of Things (ACTA, 2010); The Ethics of Business with Alexei Marcoux (Rowan & Littlefield, 2012); 10 Virtues of Outstanding Leaders with Ronald M. Green (Wiley & Blackwell, 2013).

Loyola University Chicago 820 N. Michigan Ave.
432 Maguire Hall Chicago, IL 60611

Residence: 708.488.1480 School: 312.915.6093 E-mail: agini@luc.edu

Our Lady of the Angels Fire 1958–A tragic event for Chicago Italian Catholics

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wozqeGJW0   copy the URL into your browser to see a video of an event that took place several years ago at Casa Italia– “Remembering Our Lady of the Angels—An Italian American Tragedy.” John Kuenster, author of “To Sleep with the Angels” will discussed the 1958 tragedy that decimated a large Italian-American community.  Professor Robt. Lombardo (Loyola University) who was a student at OLA when the fire took place does a short presentation.  Another source for this event is the WTTW documentary “Angels too Soon.” Paul and Cathy Ciminello also participated in the open discussion following the various presentations.