For more than two hundred years American Catholics have struggled to reconcile their national and religious values. In this incisive and accessible account, dis

Catholicism has had a profound and lasting influence on the shape, the meaning, and the course of American history. Now, in the first book to reflect the new co

Provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to understanding the complexity and diversity of the American Catholic experience.

Traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast, and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in

American Catholic places the rise of the United States' political conservatism in the context of ferment within the Roman Catholic Church. How did Roman Catholi