Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team

Mark Stephen Massa

Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999 - Religion - 278 pages

Focusing on critical figures and movements in American Catholicism, the author shows that, in spite of Catholicism's status as distrusted outsider in the early part of the century, there was engagement with, and accommodation to, mainstream American culture well before Vatican II, with both negative

Contents

• Oh the Irony of It All: 1
• Leonard Feeney the Boston: 21
• Thomas Merton and the Postwar: 38
• Joe McCarthy: 57
• Fulton J Sheen and: 82
• Dorothy Day AntiStructure: 102
• A Catholic for President? JFK Peter Berger and: 128
• The First Sunday of Advent 1964: 148
• The IHM Nuns: 172
• Magnalia Christi Americana: 222
• Notes: 233
• Index: 271

Bibliographic information

• Title: Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team; Crossroad book
• Author: Mark Stephen Massa
• Publisher: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 10, 2009
• ISBN: 0824515374, 9780824515379
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christianity / Catholic; Religion / General; Religion / History; Social Science / General