Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.
Alfred E. Smith was the best known and one of the most colorful American Catholic politicians of the 20th century's first three decades. Born in 1873, Al Smith grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood on the Lower East Side of ...
Paul VI, Pope. 1968/1983. Humanae Vitae: Encyclical Letter of His Holiness POPE Paul VI. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. Perl, Paul M., and Mark M. Gray. 2000. CARA Catholic Poll. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Research in the ...
In this lucid account, the unfinished story of Catholicism in America emerges clearly and compellingly, illuminating the inner life of the church and of the nation. Three magical adventures in-one!
In the early 1980s Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of Chicago proposed that the Catholic defense of the unborn was part of a philosophy he depicted as “the seamless web of life,” a conviction that all human life was sacred and that society ...
The rise of Catholicism from an insignificant sect in the early nineteenth century to America's largest and most influential Church is a story filled with a cast of immensely colorful...
In this collection of significant letters, diaries, theological reflections, and other primary documents, the voices of Catholics in this country reveal what they have thought, believed, feared, and dreamed.
With one of the longest and richest histories of any religious denomination in America, the Roman Catholics are profiled here from Colonial times to the present.
American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church.
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This volume interprets 18 years of gathered evidence and prognostications about the next generation of Catholicism in America.