The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present

Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape, the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first book to reflect the new communal and social awakening which emerged from Vatican Council II, here is a vibrant and compelling history of the American Catholic experience—one that will surely become the standard volume for this decade, and decades to come.

Spanning nearly five hundred years, the narrative eloquently describes the Catholic experience from the ar...