Who are American Catholics and what do they believe and practice? How has American Catholicism influenced and been influenced by American culture and society? T

For years, historians have argued that Catholicism in the United States stood decisively apart from papal politics in European society. Drawing on previously un

Catholics constitute the largest religious community in the United States. Yet most American Catholics have never known a time when their church was not embroil

In A People Adrift, a prominent Catholic thinker states bluntly that the Catholic Church in the United States must transform itself or suffer irreversible decli

Includes bibliographical references (pages 540-542) and indexes.