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050	0	0	_aBX1406.2 _b.M67 1997
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100	1		_aMorris, Charles R.
245	1	0	_aAmerican Catholic : _bthe saints and sinners who built America's most powerful church / _cCharles R. Morris.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bTimes Books, _c1997.
263			_a9704
300			_axi, 511 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _t"We Laugh to Scorn" -- _g2. _tGod's Own Providential Instrument -- _g3. _tThe Whore of Babylon Learns How to Vote -- _g4. _tThe Grand American Catholic Compromise -- _g5. _tAn American Church -- _g6. _tA Separate Universe -- _g7. _tGod's Bricklayer -- _g8. _tOn Top of the World -- _g9. _tStalin, the Pope, and Joe McCarthy -- _g10. _tThe End of the Catholic Culture -- _g11. _tPrelude: In a Dark Valley -- _g12. _tAt the End of a Century -- _g13. _tTheological Visions -- _g14. _tThe Struggle with Sexuality -- _g15. _tStyles, Themes, Dilemmas -- _g16. _tThe Church and America.
520			_aThe rise of Catholicism from an insignificant sect in the early nineteenth century to America's largest and most influential Church is a story filled with a cast of immensely colorful characters. Some were great and imposing. Others were comic, a few even shocking and sinister. Charles Morris recounts the rich story of the rise of the Catholic Church in America with an acute eye for the telling detail and the crucial turning points.
520	8		_aAmerican Catholic is not only about the saints and sinners who built the Church, but also the story of how it became the country's dominant cultural force. By the 1950s, no other institution could match its impact on unions, movies, or even popular kitsch. Protestant leaders feared the Church would "Catholicize" the entire nation.
520	8		_aBut Catholicism was always as much a culture as a religion, and the Church visibly floundered when the big-city-based Catholic culture suddenly broke down, just about the time John Kennedy became the country's first Catholic president.
520	8		_aThe last section of the book explores the Church's continuing struggle to come to terms with secular, pluralist America and the theological, sexual, doctrinal authority, and gender issues that keep tearing it apart. But, surprisingly enough, Morris's grassroots tour - from ultraconservative Lincoln, Nebraska, to more open, experimental dioceses in Saginaw and Seattle - finds Catholicism alive and well, even flourishing, at the parish level.
610	2	0	_aCatholic Church _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
610	2	0	_aCatholic Church _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xChurch history _y19th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xChurch history _y20th century.
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