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American Catholic : the saints and sinners who built America's most powerful church Charles R. Morris
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks BX 1406.2 .M67 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, Charles R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--United States--History--19th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Church history--19th century.
- United States.
- United States--Church history--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 511 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Times Books, c1997.
- Contents:
- "We laugh to scorn"
- God's own providential instrument
- The Whore of Babylon learns how to vote
- The grand American Catholic compromise
- An American church
- A separate universe
- God's bricklayer
- On top of the world
- Stalin, the Pope, and Joe McCarthy
- The end of the Catholic culture
- Prelude: in a dark valley
- At the end of a century
- Theological visions
- The struggle with sexuality
- Styles, themes, dilemmas
- The church and America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: Italian Feast Day Processsion in Philadelphia in the Early 1900s [photo] (Balch Institute of [sic] Ethnic Studies Library)
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 081292049X (alk. paper)
- 9780812920499 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 35835710
- Online:
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