Catholic Experience in America Book

	Series Foreword	xi
	Preface	xv
Part I	Two Thousand Years and Counting: The Catholic Experience	1
Chapter 1	The Catholic Theological and Philosophical Worldview	3
Chapter 2	The Formal Organization of the Catholic Church	9
Chapter 3	The Universal in the Particular: The Universal Catholic Church in Time and Space	15
Part II	Catholicism and Civilization in the United States: A Chronological Overview	23
Chapter 4	Less Than Auspicious Beginnings: A Minority Church in a Protestant Culture	25
Chapter 5	"Brick by Brick and by the Grace of God": The Construction of a Catholic Subculture	33
Chapter 6	Contemporary Catholicism in the United States: A Case of Maturation, Cleansing, and Revitalization or Decomposition, Domestication, and Internal Secularization?	41
Chapter 7	Too Little, Too Late? John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and the Catholic Restorationist Movement	49
Part III	America's Best Kept Secret: Catholic Social Thought	55
Chapter 8	"Rome Has Spoken: Enough Said!"	59
Chapter 9	Four Responses of American Catholics to Catholic Doctrine: Indifference, Rejection, Acceptance, or the Carving out of "La Via Media"	65
Part IV	Diversity within Unity? The Social Geography of the Contemporary American Catholic Community	71
Chapter 10	Varying Ethnic Traditions	75
Chapter 11	Differing Socioeconomic Class Backgrounds	85
Chapter 12	Regional Variations	89
Chapter 13	Generational Changes	95
Chapter 14	Across the Life Course	101
Chapter 15	Women and the Church	107
Chapter 16	The Issue of Race	113
Chapter 17	Eastern Catholicism	125
Chapter 18	Religious Orders, Devotional Styles, and Other Internal Sources of Catholic Differentiation	131
Chapter 19	Differing Theological and Philosophical Worldviews	141
Part V	Controversies and Turning Points in American Catholic History	145
Chapter 20	Historical Events before Vatican II	147
Chapter 21	Contemporary Issues after Vatican II	183
Part VI	What Lies Ahead? Charting out Different Possible Scenarios for the Catholic Church in the United States	243
	Postscript: Staying the Course with Benedict XVI in a Post-John Paul II Church	253
Appendix A	Church Documents Discussed	257
Appendix B	Glossary of Key Terms Used	263
Appendix C	Key Voluntary Organizations in the Catholic Church of the United States	283
Appendix D	Basic Demographic and Statistical Information about the Catholic Church Institution and Community in the United States	291
Appendix E	Key Locations (Museums, Colleges/Seminaries/High Schools, Basilicas and Cathedrals, Shrines, Monasteries, and Feasts/Festivals)	295
Appendix F	Archival Depositories	301
Appendix G	Resource Guides on the Web	305
Appendix H	Timeline on the Catholic Experience in the United States	307
	Bibliography	313
	Index	323
	About the Author	341