The Building Of An American Catholic Church
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Author | : Charles Morris |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2011-08-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0307797910 |
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty years later, New York City was home to more Irish Catholics than Dublin. Today, the United States boasts some sixty million members of the Catholic Church, which has become one of this country's most influential cultural forces. In American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church, Charles R. Morris recounts the rich story of the rise of the Catholic Church in America, bringing to life the personalities that transformed an urban Irish subculture into a dominant presence nationwide. Here are the stories of rogues and ruffians, heroes and martyrs--from Dorothy Day, a convert from Greenwich Village Marxism who opened shelters for thousands, to Cardinal William O'Connell, who ran the Church in Boston from a Renaissance palazzo, complete with golf course. Morris also reveals the Church's continuing struggle to come to terms with secular, pluralist America and the theological, sexual, authority, and gender issues that keep tearing it apart. As comprehensive as it is provocative, American Catholic is a tour de force, a fascinating cultural history that will engage and inform both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. "The best one-volume history of the last hundred years of American Catholicism that it has ever been my pleasure to read. What's appealing in this remarkable book is its delicate sense of balance and its soundly grounded judgments." --Andrew Greeley
Author | : Marvin R. O'Connell |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873512305 |
"O'Connell presents an excellent biography of the first archbishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, who rose from poverty to become an internationally known clerical figure and friend of presidents. . . . Well written and well researched, this biography brings to life an important figure in American religious history. Recommended."--Library Journal
Author | : William V. D'Antonio |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780742552159 |
American Catholics Today presents trends in American Catholic opinion from 1987 to 2005, using four identical surveys. These surveys depict trends in Catholics' views of the sacraments, church authority, church teachings in the area of sex and gender, and strength of Catholic identity. This book suggests that the future will see more Catholics making decisions about their own faith and fewer Catholics who are fervently committed to church life.
Author | : Denis Robert McNamara |
Publisher | : LiturgyTrainingPublications |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1595250271 |
Author | : David Gibson |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2011-10-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0062127314 |
Rather than chronicling the well-reported sexual abuse scandal or advocating a particular reform agenda, David Gibson shows how the crisis in the church is unleashing forces that will change American Catholicism forever.
Author | : Joseph Agonito |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351593145 |
Originally published in 1988. The new-found freedom and changing attitudes towards Catholics after the American Revolution presented the Catholic Church with its first real opportunity to prosper in the English speaking "new world". But the Catholic Church could not take advantage of this opportunity unless it shook off some of its "old world" characteristics and became accustomed to the American environment. This study attempts to analyse the very nature of American Catholicism by investigating the impact of the American environment on the development of the Catholic Church in American during the episcopacy of John Carroll. This title will be of interest to students of history and religious studies.
Author | : Jay P. Dolan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780268014285 |
Within the American Catholic Church the Mexican American legacy is the longest, as is their struggle for full acceptance in the institutional church. In this volume three historians examine religious history, focusing on Mexican American faith communities. Originally published in 1994.
Author | : Christian Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199341087 |
Best Review at the Catholic Press Association Convention Studies of young American Catholics over the last three decades suggest a growing crisis in the Catholic Church: compared to their elders, young Catholics are looking to the Church less as they form their identities, and fewer of them can even explain what it means to be Catholic and why that matters. Young Catholic America, the latest book based on the groundbreaking National Study of Youth and Religion, explores a crucial stage in the life of Catholics. Drawing on in-depth surveys and interviews of Catholics and ex-Catholics ages 18 to 23--a demographic commonly known as early "emerging adulthood"--leading sociologist Christian Smith and his colleagues offer a wealth of insight into the wide variety of religious practices and beliefs among young Catholics today, the early influences and life-altering events that lead them to embrace the Church or abandon it, and how being Catholic affects them as they become full-fledged adults. Beyond its rich collection of statistical data, the book includes vivid case studies of individuals spanning a full decade, as well as insight into the twentieth-century events that helped to shape the Church and its members in America. An innovative contribution to what we know about religion in the United States and the evolving Catholic Church, Young Catholic America is the definitive source for anyone seeking to understand what it means to be young and Catholic in America today.
Author | : David Carlin |
Publisher | : Sophia Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2013-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1622821696 |
Behind the lurid headlines: why the Church in America declined. Forty years ago, three powerful forces capsized the Catholic Church in America. These pages detail those forces, and map the path that you and I - and our priests and bishops - must walk if we are to make the Church in America vigorous again.
Author | : Denis Robert McNamara |
Publisher | : LiturgyTrainingPublications |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781568545035 |
This visually stunning and carefully researched book encompasses some of the most significant Catholic churches of Chicago, addressing both their architectural and theological significance. Color photographs beautifully illustrate the insightful text. It is a book suitable for those interested in local history, architectural achievement, theological awareness, or those who simply desire to glory in the visual beauty of Chicago's historic churches.