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Title: American Catholic : The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church by Charles Morris ISBN: 0-679-74221-2 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A stunning and thorough history of Catholicism in America
Comment: As a lifelong Catholic who was born after the Second Vatican Council, I found this book to be an invaluable tool in my quest to understand the Church that I have grown up with. Morris pulls no punches in this warts and all book, highlighting the shortcomings and moral failures of many of the Church's early leaders, and he raises many issues that are relevant to Catholics today. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know more about Catholicism here in the United States.
Rating: 5
Summary: For all Catholics and American History buffs
Comment: This book is an easy, truly engaging 'must read' for Catholics struggling with the the human side of the Church and for all scholars of American History. While Morris does not gloss over some very serious problems in the Church, he does create a sense of realism and hope for the future. I was amazed at how well he covered issues and explored the relationship of those isses to events past and present. Well worth the time spent on reading this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent view of the Church in America
Comment: I greatly enjoyed this well-written history of American Catholicism. The earliest chapters, primarily about the influx of Irish immigrants (and the reasons behind it) were particularly fascinating.
However, this book primarily focuses on America from the Victorian age on. There is almost no discussion of Catholicism in the colonial period (the founding of Maryland, the denial of rights to Catholics, etc.), which I feel should have been included.
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Title: In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension by Jay P. Dolan ISBN: 0195069269 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The American Catholic Experience by Jay P. Dolan ISBN: 0385152078 Publisher: Galilee Pub. Date: 18 August, 1987 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A People Adrift : The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America by Peter Steinfels ISBN: 0684836637 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Roman Catholicism in America by Chester Gillis ISBN: 0231108710 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.50 |
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Title: Catholicism and American Freedom: A History by John T. McGreevy ISBN: 0393047601 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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