A Southern Catholic Legacy: Notre Dame Seminary In New Orleans, Louisiana

Faith and Church both exist within a complex matrix of personalities and culture, spirituality and history. “A Southern Catholic Legacy” explores the intertwining of these patterns from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. The establishment of Notre Dame Seminary in 1923 as an institution of higher learning for training Southern Catholic Clergy was an achievement made possible by the close collaboration of Archbishop John W. Shaw (1918-1934) with the clergy and laity of the South, thereby succeeding in an endeavor which had defeated all of his predecessors.