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Laddar... American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (1997)av Charles Morris
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Excellent history of the Catholic Church in the United States....until THE VATICAN II SECT comes on the scene.... ( ) 4325. American Catholic The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church, by Charles R. Morris (read 8 June 2007) I found this book unfailingly interesting, telling me things I had not heard before, even though I have done a lot of reading in Catholic history, including reading (on 30 Sept 1961) the classic account of the Americanist 'heresy': The Great Crisis in American Catholic History, 1895-1900 by Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C. But while the history part of this book is of high interest, the survey of Catholicism today, including the story of his visits to the very orthodox diocese of Lincoln, Neb., and to the liberal diocese of Saginaw, Mich., under Bishop Untener, make for fascinating reading and are handled not judgmentally in either case. I found this book held my interest all the way thru. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people."nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; --Los Angeles Times Book Review Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty years later, New York City was home to more Irish Catholics than Dublin. Today, the United States boasts some sixty million members of the Catholic Church, which has become one of this country's most influential cultural forces. In American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church, Charles R. Morris recounts the rich story of the rise of the Catholic Church in America, bringing to life the personalities that transformed an urban Irish subculture into a dominant presence nationwide. Here are the stories of rogues and ruffians, heroes and martyrs--from Dorothy Day, a convert from Greenwich Village Marxism who opened shelters for thousands, to Cardinal William O'Connell, who ran the Church in Boston from a Renaissance palazzo, complete with golf course. Morris also reveals the Church's continuing struggle to come to terms with secular, pluralist America and the theological, sexual, authority, and gender issues that keep tearing it apart. As comprehensive as it is provocative, American Catholic is a tour de force, a fascinating cultural history that will engage and inform both Catholics and non-Catholics alike. "The best one-volume history of the last hundred years of American Catholicism that it has ever been my pleasure to read.nbsp;nbsp;What's appealing in this remarkable book is its delicate sense of balance and its soundly grounded judgments." --Andrew Greeley Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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