Corruption, murder, McCarthyism, a crusading priest, censorship and Hollywood - this book has everything. Fisher (theology and American studies, Fordham University) merges the story behind the film On
Editors Appleby and Cummings (the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, the University of Notre Dame) present work reviewing the 20th century through an American Catholic lens and revea
Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built
"For generations, American Catholics . . . lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little to them, but parishioners clung to deeply ingr
Horizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying the faith and lived religion of Catholics of Mexican descent living in the United States. Religious practices, including devotion t
Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely an
By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was tra
