Author: James J. Hennesey

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1983-03-24

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 0198020368

Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.