Carroll, James
Summary: This personal history of the American Catholic Church during writer Carroll's lifetime traces the transformation of a medieval institution, suspicious of American ideas of freedom and democracy, into a church that has begun to embrace basic American principles of pluralism and respect for conscience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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Summary: Throughout much of the 19th century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group 2019