Msgr. Paul Hanly Furfey
Monsignor Furfey (1896-1992) was a provocative Catholic sociologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Boston College, St. Mary's University, and The Catholic University of America (CUA), where he obtained a doctorate. Ordained in 1922, he taught at Trinity College (DC), the Nati...
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The American Catholic Research Center and University Archives
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| Summary: | Monsignor Furfey (1896-1992) was a provocative Catholic sociologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Boston College, St. Mary's University, and The Catholic University of America (CUA), where he obtained a doctorate. Ordained in 1922, he taught at Trinity College (DC), the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS), and CUA where he headed the Sociology Department, 1934-1963. He served as Co-Director of CUA's Bureau of Social Research (BSR) and the Center for Child Development; Associate Director of D.C. Catholic Charities and the Juvenile Delinquency Evaluation Project in New York City; president of the American Catholic Sociological Society, and was a co-founder of Fides and Il Poverello settlement houses. His voluminous papers contain correspondence, reference and research material, student notes and papers, photographs and other memorabilia, financial records, and printed material reflecting decades of education, religion, and social activism from a Catholic intellectual and spiritual perspective. |
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| Physical Description: | 161.25 linear feet; 129 boxes |