American Catholic History: A Documentary Reader Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Frontiers and Encounter     7
Sublimus Deus (1537)     8
Meeting of a Spanish Missionary with a Navajo Apache Chief (1630)     10
The English Jesuits Establish the Maryland Mission (1634)     12
Brebeuf, "Instructions to Our Fathers Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons" (1637)     15
Maryland's Act of Religious Toleration (1649)     17
Hennepin's "Description of Missionary Difficulties with Natives" (1697)     19
Massachusetts's "Act Against Jesuits and Priests" (1700)     23
Report on Catholicism in the English Colonies (1773)     26
First American Report to the Propaganda Fide (1785)     28
John Carroll's Letter on Lay Trusteeism (1786)     31
Report on Catholic Life in New Orleans (1795)     33
First Council of Baltimore (1829)     36
Benedicta Riepp Defends Nuns' Autonomy (1857, 1859)     38
Further Suggested Reading     39
Inside/Outside     41
Alexis de Tocqueville on American Catholics (1835)     42
John Hughes Condemns the New York Public School Society (1841)     45
The American Protestant Association (1842)     49
Archbishop Hughes Explains American Liberty to Rome(1858)     51
"Roman Instruction on Catholic Children in Public Schools" (1875)     54
Isaac Hecker on Catholic Scholasticism in America (1887)     58
John Ireland, Introduction to the Life of Father Hecker (1891)     61
Testem Benevolentiae Condemns "Americanism" (1899)     64
"Report on the Religious Conditions of Puerto Ricans in New York" (1951)     68
John LaFarge on Race Relations (1956)     71
Patty Crowley and the Birth Control Commission (1965)     74
U.S. Bishops on "The Challenge of Peace" (1983)     82
Hispanic Deacons to Cardinal O'Connor (1988)     88
Michael Novak on the "Spirit of Capitalism" (1993)     91
Further Suggested Reading     94
Catholicism and the Intellectual Life     95
John Tracy Ellis, "American Catholics and the Intellectual Life" (1955)     95
John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Truths (1960)     101
Madeleva Wolff, "Educating Our Daughters as Women" (1961)     106
"Land O'Lakes" Statement on Catholic Universities (1967)     110
Flannery O'Connor on Being a "Catholic" Writer (1969)     115
Andrew Greeley, "Models for Viewing American Catholicism" (1977)     119
Elizabeth Johnson, "To Speak Rightly of God" (1992)      121
Further Suggested Reading     126
Politics     127
Bishop John England on Slavery (1840)     128
Cardinal Gibbons Defends the Knights of Labor (1887)     132
John A. Ryan and the Bishops' Program for Social Reconstruction (1919)     139
Joseph Nevins, "Education to Catholic Marriage" (1928)     147
Dorothy Day, "Loaves and Fishes" (1933)     148
Katharine M. Byrne, "Happy Little Wives and Mothers" (1956)     157
John F. Kennedy, "Address to Southern Baptist Leaders" (1960)     160
"Dignity and the Priest" (1961)     163
Dr. John Rock, "The Pill" (1963)     165
Kay Toy Fenner, "American Catholic Dating Guidelines" (1963)     169
Sister Jean Reidy, C.H.M., "Nuns in Ordinary Clothes" (1967)     171
"Statement by Catholic Theologians" and "Dissent in and for the Church" (1968 & 1969)     174
Phyllis Schlafly, "What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?" (1972)     181
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, "A Consistent Ethic of Life" (1983)     184
Richard John Neuhaus, "The Catholic Moment" (1987)     192
Andrew Sullivan, "Alone Again, Naturally" (1994)     198
Further Suggested Reading     210
Worship & the Spiritual Life     213
Preparing for Confession (1792)     213
"Sunday Morning Mass" (1868)     216
The Baltimore Catechism (1885)     220
James Cardinal Gibbons, "The Invocation of the Saints" (1892)     221
The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1897)     225
"Litany for the Conversion of America" (1908)     227
"The Passion Play of the West" (1910)     230
"Youth and Catholic Leadership" (1936)     232
William Leonard, S.J., on the Missa Recitata in Wartime (1943-45)     235
U.S. Catholic Bishops, "Regulations on Fast and Abstinence" (1951)     237
Patrick Peyton & the Family Rosary Crusade (1951)     238
American Catholics from World War II to the 1970s: Photographs from the Collections of the Library of Congress     241
"How the 'People of God' Want to Worship" (1964)     246
Father Gommar De Pauw, J.C.D., "The Catholic Traditionalist Manifesto" (1964)     248
Thomas Merton, "Fourth and Walnut Vision" (1966)     251
Daniel Lowery, CSSR, "A 'Piety Void?'" (1966)     253
Mary Papa, "People Having a Good Time Praying" (1969)     258
Garry Wills, "Memories of a Catholic Boyhood" (1972)     263
Albert Ottenweller, "A Call to Restructure the Parish" (1975)     271
Judith Tate O'Brien, "Presenting My Entire Self to God" (1984)     274
Further Suggested Reading     277
Source List     279
About the Editors     287