By Jay Dolan, Oxford University Press
Being
a Catholic and an American can be rife with tension. Dolan, professor
emeritus of history at Notre Dame, here offers an accessible and
engaging view on how American culture has shaped and been shaped
by Catholics over the past 200 years. Vatican II, the influx of
different ethnic groups, including Catholic Hispanics, and the
recent priest scandal all figure into the author's fine study
of an Old World faith meeting a New World society.
Dolan, the founder of the University's Cushwa Center for the
Study of American Catholicism, also is the author of the acclaimed
standard history of American Catholicism, The American Catholic
Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present.
