final cia photo essay
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A photo essay produced by Rafael Ablao, Nick Hamati, Justin Jones, and Chase Walter '13 on the history of Jesuitism and Catholicism.TRANSCRIPT
Photo above: This is a photo taken in the early 70’s of the first bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, Edward A. McCarthy, with several newly ordained men. Photo right: This is a photo of St. Mary’s Basilica taken in the early 1920’s. Photo right: This is a photo of the vestments worn by Pope Paul VI when he came to officially establish the Dio-cese of Phoenix. Photo far right: This is a photo of the keystone to the Brophy Chapel built in 1928. This makes it the second old-est Catholic church in the Diocese! Photos courtesy of the Ro-man Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Archives.
Photo above: This is a photo of what is said to be some of the first priests of the Phoenix area. Photo Right: This is a photo of the early stages of St. Mary’s Church. Obviously there must have been some renovations! Photos courtesy of the Roman Catho-lic Diocese of Phoenix Archives.
The Catholic Charities Community Services have been serving Phoenix from over 75 years. The organization be-gan in the year 1933 with hopes to advocate kids and others suffering through the great depression. It now severs in var-ious areas in the Central and Northern Arizona areas.
The Catholic Charities Community Services pro-vides help for domestic violence victims. There domestic Violence pro-grams shelter and assist these women and there children so that they are able to escape the abuse and regain an independent life for themselves.
The Charity helps the homeless and the re-duction of poverty in the area. They provide these people with programs to help them get back on there feet and to become valued members of society. They also offer home-less shelters for those in need to stay in.
Counseling is also a key area the charity works in. They offer counsel-ing of all types form Anger management to unplanned pregnancies. These programs are free-based with a sliding scale on the person’s ability to pay.
By Nicholas Hamati
Photo by Google Images
Photo by Google Images
Photo by CCCS
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has been serving Phoenix since 1946. There mission is to help the poor and provide oth-ers with a chance to server there community. The Phoenix Di-ocesan helps St. Vincent de Paul in provides assistance for families in central and northern Arizona. An Image of St. Vincent de Paul
Over 16,000 (6,000 in Phoenix alone) people volunteer at the Soci-ety of St. Vincent de Paul. They move of 10 million pounds of food through their food banks each year they go to feeding the homeless and others in need.
Apart from the amazing charitable work that St. Vincent de Paul has to offer in re-gards to feeding the hunger, they also offer form of medical and dental care for the community. These health care options come at little to no cost for the people in need of these services.
By Nicholas Hamati
Photo by Google Images
Photo by SSVDP
Image by Google Images
In 1833, a young law student named Frederic Ozanam created the official organization Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris, France. During a de-bate at the Sorbonne, he had to show exactly what he and his fellow Catholic students were really doing for the poor in Paris. Within weeks of the debate, Ozanam and six friends formed the first official “Conference of Charity.” This group’s main interests were service to and visita-tion of the poor. They used their own money to pay for the expenses
of the society and they even used some contri-butions they had re-ceived. Ozanam then decided that the society would be run under the patronage of St. Vin-cent de Paul who, in 16th century France, had also served the poor.
General History of Society of St. Vincent de Paul
St. Vincent de Paul pamphlet commemorat-ing 50 years of service to the poor
Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix
Although the Society of St. Vincent de Paul started internationally, the Phoenix Diocesan Council has been help-ing Arizona families since 1946. The many programs it offers in-clude general assis-tance, service to the homeless, medical and dental care for the working poor, charity dining rooms, thrift stores, and transitional housing shelters. Nearly 100 years after Ozanam started his organization, young Catholic men from Phoenix, Arizona joined in this same type of charity. A New Yorker familiar with
the society named Tommy Johnstone gathered four men with assistance from the pastor of St. Mary’s church. On April 26th, 1946, these men met in at St. Mary’s old rec-tory, which officially marked the beginning of the present-day Phoenix Diocesan Council for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Today, many years after the first meeting, the Phoenix chapter has 89 conferences of charity, at least 2500 active Vincentians (members), and over 6,000 volunteers.
The logo for the Phoenix chapter of Society of St. Vin-
cent de Paul
By Justin Jones
Photos courtesy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Archives
Frédéric Ozanam (founder of St. Vincent de Paul) in Paris, France - 1833
An original St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix
The new St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix
Phoenix St. Joseph’s Hospi-tal and Medical Center logo
Photos courtesy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Archives
The original St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix
Background of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is a not-for-profit hospital that provides a wide variety of health, so-cial, and support ser-vices, with special care for the poor and under-served of society. In 1895, the Sisters of Mercy formed the St. Joseph’s first hospital in the Phoenix area. The hospital is part of one of the largest healthcare systems in the West with 40 hos-pitals in California, Arizona, and Nevada. It is currently operated by Dignity Health, one the biggest healthcare systems in the West since it has 40 hospi-
tals in the Western states of the United States. St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center has 607 beds for its patients. It is involved with the Bar-row Neurological Insti-tute, which is the world’s biggest neuro-surgical center. St. Joseph’s is a center mainly for tertiary care, medical educa-tion, and research. The hospital is a center for many different types of care, especially for the poor and underserved of society.
Another original St. Joseph’s Hospital building
St. Mary’s “Adobe Church” - 1903 (first meeting place of Society of St. Vincent de Paul)
St. Mary’s “Basement Church” - 1913
Photos courtesy of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix Archives
The cover of a book commemorating St. Mary’s Basilica’s 100 years and counting. This is where the first meeting
was held for the Phoenix Diocesan Council for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Thank you, on behalf of Ms. Baldwin’s CIA Class of ’13, to the Diocese of Phoenix Archives for granting us the opportunity to view the archives first-had on our quest for knowledge and answers to the questions surrounding the Catholic Church!