The Catholic Church remains one of the oldest institutions of Western civilization. It continues to withstand attack from without and defection from within. In his revision of American Catholicism, Monsignor Ellis has added a new chapter on the history of the Church since 1956. Here he deals with developments in Catholic education, with the changing relations of the Church to its own members and to society in general, and especially with arguments for and against the ecumenical movement brought about by Vatican Council II. The author gives an updated historical account of the part played by Catholics in both the American Revolution and the Civil War, and of the difficulties within the Church that came with the clash of national interests among Irish, French, and Germans in the nineteenth century. He regards immigration as the key to the increasingly important role of American Catholicism in the nation after 1820. For contemporary America, the author counts among the signs of the mature Church an increase in Church membership, the presence of nine Americans in the College of Cardinals in May, 1967, and the expansion of American effort in Catholic missions throughout the world.

American Catholicism (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

Ellis, John Tracy

Religion & Spirituality

University of Chicago Press

This book probably represents the apogee of the classical genre in the writing of American Catholic history. A study of the Roman Catholic priesthood in the United States.

The Catholic Priest in the United States: Historical Investigations

Liturgical Press

Monsignor John Tracy Ellis is Professorial Lecturer in Church History at the Catholic University of America. The career of this pre-eminent church historian is here traced from his early schooling in Illinois to his graduate studies and teaching posts at the Catholic University of America. He has also taught at the University of San Francisco and has held several visiting professorships both here and abroad. Generations of church historians have studied under him. His publications number in the hundreds, but he is best known for a dozen or so books in the field of American Catholic history. For a half-century now he has served on the editorial board of the Catholic Historical Review, from 1941 to 1963 as its managing editor. By his numerous public addresses, essays, and talks on radio and television, he has become a major interpreter of the American Catholic experience to the nation at large. The story of this long and remarkable career are here told in lively and reflective detail. Co-published with the Catholic University Department of Church History.

Faith and Learning: A Church Historian's Story (Volume 1)

Biographies & Memoirs

University Press of America

Catholics In Colonial America: The American Ecclesiastical Review, V136, January Through May, 1957

Catholics in Colonial America: The American Ecclesiastical Review, V136, January Through May, 1957

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Literature & Fiction

Literary

Cardinal Consalvi And Anglo-Papal Relations, 1814-1824

"A Commitment to Truth" was the 19th lecture in the Wimmer Memorial Lecture Series (1947-1970) at Saint Vincent and was given in 1965.

A Commitment to Truth

Wipf & Stock Publishers

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