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1 - Church Life in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

from Part I - Vatican II in Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2020

By
Mark R. Francis
Edited by
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Richard R. Gaillardetz
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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Summary

Catholics before Vatican II lived in a world emotionally and even geographically apart from non-Catholics and non-believers. The church was identified as a European institution embedded in the cultures of the traditionally Catholic countries of Southern and Eastern Europe brought to North America and Australia by immigration. Highly authoritarian and hierarchically organized, the Catholic Church provided a universe largely at odds not only with Protestants but also with “modern” developments in government, sciences, and philosophy.

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Popular devotionsrubricismhierarchy
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The Cambridge Companion to Vatican II , pp. 3 - 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience: A History from the Colonial Times to the Present. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985.Google Scholar
Massa, Mark, ed. American Catholic History: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2008.Google Scholar
McGreevy, John T. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Orsi, Robert. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Senior, Donald. Raymond E. Brown and the Catholic Biblical Renewal. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Shelley, Thomas J. “The Young John Tracy Ellis and American Catholic Intellectual Life.” U.S. Catholic Historian 13, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 1–18.Google Scholar
Stevens, Arroyo, and Díaz Stevens, Ana María, eds. An Enduring Flame: Studies on Latino Popular Religiosity. PARAL studies series. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 1994.Google Scholar
Taves, Ann. The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Mid-Nineteenth Century America. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.Google Scholar

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