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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Frontiers and Encounter | |
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| Sublimus Deus (1537) | |
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| Meeting of a Spanish Missionary with a Navajo Apache Chief (1630) | |
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| The English Jesuits Establish the Maryland Mission (1634) | |
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| Brebeuf, "Instructions to Our Fathers Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons" (1637) | |
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| Maryland's Act of Religious Toleration (1649) | |
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| Hennepin's "Description of Missionary Difficulties with Natives" (1697) | |
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| Massachusetts's "Act Against Jesuits and Priests" (1700) | |
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| Report on Catholicism in the English Colonies (1773) | |
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| First American Report to the Propaganda Fide (1785) | |
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| John Carroll's Letter on Lay Trusteeism (1786) | |
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| Report on Catholic Life in New Orleans (1795) | |
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| First Council of Baltimore (1829) | |
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| Benedicta Riepp Defends Nuns' Autonomy (1857, 1859) | |
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| Further Suggested Reading | |
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| Inside/Outside | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville on American Catholics (1835) | |
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| John Hughes Condemns the New York Public School Society (1841) | |
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| The American Protestant Association (1842) | |
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| Archbishop Hughes Explains American Liberty to Rome (1858) | |
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| "Roman Instruction on Catholic Children in Public Schools" (1875) | |
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| Isaac Hecker on Catholic Scholasticism in America (1887) | |
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| John Ireland, Introduction to the Life of Father Hecker (1891) | |
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| Testem Benevolentiae Condemns "Americanism" (1899) | |
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| "Report on the Religious Conditions of Puerto Ricans in New York" (1951) | |
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| John LaFarge on Race Relations (1956) | |
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| Patty Crowley and the Birth Control Commission (1965) | |
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| U.S. Bishops on "The Challenge of Peace" (1983) | |
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| Hispanic Deacons to Cardinal O'Connor (1988) | |
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| Michael Novak on the "Spirit of Capitalism" (1993) | |
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| Further Suggested Reading | |
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| Catholicism and the Intellectual Life | |
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| John Tracy Ellis, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life" (1955) | |
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| John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths (1960) | |
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| Madeleva Wolff, "Educating Our Daughters as Women" (1961) | |
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| "Land O'Lakes" Statement on Catholic Universities (1967) | |
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| Flannery O'Connor on Being a "Catholic" Writer (1969) | |
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| Andrew Greeley, "Models for Viewing American Catholicism" (1977) | |
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| Elizabeth Johnson, "To Speak Rightly of God" (1992) | |
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| Further Suggested Reading | |
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| Politics | |
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| Bishop John England on Slavery (1840) | |
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| Cardinal Gibbons Defends the Knights of Labor (1887) | |
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| John A. Ryan and the Bishops' Program for Social Reconstruction (1919) | |
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| Joseph Nevins, "Education to Catholic Marriage" (1928) | |
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| Dorothy Day, "Loaves and Fishes" (1933) | |
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| Katharine M. Byrne, "Happy Little Wives and Mothers" (1956) | |
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| John F. Kennedy, "Address to Southern Baptist Leaders" (1960) | |
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| "Dignity and the Priest" (1961) | |
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| Dr. John Rock, "The Pill" (1963) | |
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| Kay Toy Fenner, "American Catholic Dating Guidelines" (1963) | |
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| Sister Jean Reidy, C.H.M., "Nuns in Ordinary Clothes" (1967) | |
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| "Statement by Catholic Theologians" and "Dissent in and for the Church" (1968 & 1969) | |
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| Phyllis Schlafly, "What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?" (1972) | |
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| Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, "A Consistent Ethic of Life" (1983) | |
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| Richard John Neuhaus, "The Catholic Moment" (1987) | |
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| Andrew Sullivan, "Alone Again, Naturally" (1994) | |
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| Further Suggested Reading | |
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| Worship & the Spiritual Life | |
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| Preparing for Confession (1792) | |
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| "Sunday Morning Mass" (1868) | |
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| The Baltimore Catechism (1885) | |
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| James Cardinal Gibbons, "The Invocation of the Saints" (1892) | |
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| The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1897) | |
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| "Litany for the Conversion of America" (1908) | |
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| "The Passion Play of the West" (1910) | |
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| "Youth and Catholic Leadership" (1936) | |
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| William Leonard, S.J., on the Missa Recitata in Wartime (1943-45) | |
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| U.S. Catholic Bishops, "Regulations on Fast and Abstinence" (1951) | |
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| Patrick Peyton & the Family Rosary Crusade (1951) | |
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| American Catholics from World War II to the 1970s: Photographs from the Collections of the Library of Congress | |
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| "How the 'People of God' Want to Worship" (1964) | |
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| Father Gommar De Pauw, J.C.D., "The Catholic Traditionalist Manifesto" (1964) | |
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| Thomas Merton, "Fourth and Walnut Vision" (1966) | |
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| Daniel Lowery, CSSR, "A 'Piety Void?'" (1966) | |
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| Mary Papa, "People Having a Good Time Praying" (1969) | |
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| Garry Wills, "Memories of a Catholic Boyhood" (1972) | |
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| Albert Ottenweller, "A Call to Restructure the Parish" (1975) | |
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| Judith Tate O'Brien, "Presenting My Entire Self to God" (1984) | |
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| Further Suggested Reading | |
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| Source List | |
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| About the Editors | |