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Catholics in America : a history
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"Beginning with a narrative history of Catholics and Catholicism in America, Patrick Carey brings the discussion through to current times, addressing the recent problems in the Church, women's role...
"Beginning with a narrative history of Catholics and Catholicism in America, Patrick Carey brings the discussion through to current times, addressing the recent problems in the Church, women's roles, and responses to terrorism and war. He then goes on to include brief biographical sketches of important figures in the Church, and offers a chronology of important events. The result is one of the most comprehensive histories of Catholics in America available."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Patrick W. Carey
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- English
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- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004
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- x, 290 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780275982553, 0275982556
- OCLC
- ocm55764301
- Rev. ed. of: The Roman Catholics. c1993.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-270) and index.
- Colonial Catholicism, 1492-1840 -- A free church in a free state, 1776-1815 -- Internal conflicts, nativism, and immigrant Catholicism, 1815-1866 -- Reconstruction and expansion, 1866-1884 -- Americanism, 1884-1899 -- Catholicism in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- The roaring twenties, the depression, and World War II, 1920-1945 -- Catholicism in the cold war, 1945-1965 -- Post-Vatican II Catholicism, 1965-1990 -- Troubled times, 1990-2003 -- Biographical sketches