Catholics in America : religious identity and cultural assimilation from John Carroll to Flannery O'Connor / Russell Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Russell B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholics--United States--Biography.

Catholics.

United States.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

141 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Ignatius Press, [2016]

Summary:

This Book is a Collection of popularly written profiles of some of the leading figures in American Catholic history. The group includes Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Orestes Brownson, Cardinal James Gibbons, Al Smith, Dorothy Day, Cardinal Francis Spellman, President John F Kennedy, and others. Collectively, these individuals tell the story of the building and the shaping of the largest religious body in the United States. But this book is more than an historical survey of prominent personalities. Catholics in America explores the ongoing, often controversial, effort of Catholics to work out their identity in a secular, and sometimes hostile, society. Taken together, the chapters pose a fundamental challenge to the conventional wisdom of Catholic Americanist historiography, which takes cultural assimilation for granted. The oldest question in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States may be this: "Is it possible to be a good Catholic and a good American?" This book documents the variety of answers that have been given to date and demonstrates that the question is timelier now than ever before. Book jacket.

Contents:

Archbishop John Carroll (1735-1815) : equal rights of citizenship

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) : love says let it be

Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864 : become merged in the country of your adoption

Orestes Brownson (1803-1876) : an American ultramontanist

Father Isaac Hecker (1819-1888) : God's providence was preparing me for a great work

Father Michael McGivney (1852-1890) : the honor as its founder will be His

James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) : a politician in the best sense

Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) : I worked on Mr. Capitano Pizzati for a month

All Smith (1873-1944) : I am a product of America and of American institutions

Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) : American and Roman

Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979) : Evangelist of American Way

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) : Rome meets Camelot

Dorothy Day (1897-1980) : Catholicism as countercultural

Father John Courtney Murray (1904-1967) : we (use to) hold these truths

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) : I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1621641430

9781621641438

OCLC:

949865961