American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States

by James J. Hennesey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195032680
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/24/1983
Series:	Galaxy Books
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.62(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	3
I	Spanish America	9
II	New France	23
III	Louisiana	31
IV	English America: Maryland	36
V	English America: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York	46
VI	Revolution	55
VII	Organization of a Church	69
VIII	The Failure of Carroll's Plans	89
IX	The Era of the Common Man	101
X	Immigrants Become the Church	116
XI	Westward the Course of Empire	128
XII	Abolition and Civil War	143
XIII	Reconstruction	158
XIV	The Gilded Age	172
XV	Growing Pains in the Catholic Community	184
XVI	The End of the Beginning	204
XVII	So Certain and Set Apart	221
XVIII	Catholicism Unbound: The Church of the Twenties	234
XIX	We Shall Not Wither Up and Blow Away	254
XX	Cross and Flag	280
XXI	A Revolutionary Moment	307
	Notes	333
	Index	377