Catholic Practice in North America*

Edited by John C. Seitz, Associate Professor, Theology Department, Associate Director, Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University and Jessica Delgado, Associate Professor, Department of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University.

This series aims to contribute to the growing field of Catholic studies through the publication of books devoted to the historical and cultural study of Catholic practice in North America, from the colonial period to the present. The series springs from a pressing need in the study of American Catholicism for empirical investigations and creative explorations and analyses of the contours of Catholic experience.

*Now known as, Catholic Practice in the Americas.

Series Advisory Board:
Emma Anderson, Ottowa University
Paul Contino, Pepperdine University
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Jack Lee Downey, La Salle University
Thomas Ferraro, Duke University
James T. Fisher, Fordham University
Paul Mariani, Boston College
Mark Massa, Boston College
Thomas A. Tweed, University of Notre Dame

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Missions Begin with Blood

Missions Begin with Blood

Brandon Bayne

Brandon Bayne

Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer PrizeWhile the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became...

ISBN: 9780823294190

Just Universities

Just Universities

Gerald J. Beyer

Gerald J. Beyer

Third Place, Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to...

ISBN: 9780823289974

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Stephanie N. Brehm

Stephanie N. Brehm

This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert’s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.

ISBN: 9780823294039

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Luke Ritter

Luke Ritter

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid...

ISBN: 9780823289851

Womanpriest

Jill Peterfeso

Jill Peterfeso

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking if priests are necessary,...

ISBN: 9780823288274

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice

Peter Maurin

Edited by Lincoln Rice

The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected to the Catholic Worker...

ISBN: 9780823287536

Working Alternatives

Working Alternatives

John C. Seitz, Christine Firer Hinze, Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Colis Greene, Christine Firer Hinze, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas K. Rademacher, John C. Seitz, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirstin Swinth, Sandra Waddock

Edited by John C. Seitz and Christine Firer Hinze

Contributor(s): Gerald J. Beyer, Alison Colis Greene, Christine Firer Hinze, Kathleen Holscher, Michael Naughton, Michael Pirson, Nicholas K. Rademacher, John C. Seitz, Vincent Stanley, Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar, Kirstin Swinth and Sandra Waddock

Working Alternatives explores economic life from a multidisciplinary and humanistic perspective, with a particular eye on religions’ implications in practices of work, management, supply, production, remuneration, and exchange. Its contributors draw upon historical, ethical, business, and theological conversations considering the sources of economic sustainability and justice.

ISBN: 9780823288342

Pure Act

Michael N. McGregor

Michael N. McGregor

A biography of experimental poet and spiritual seeker Robert Lax, who inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac and many others. Using information and stories drawn from journal entries, letters, interviews and the author’s personal recollections, the book chronicles the development of Lax’s distinctive poetic style and a spontaneous, spiritual approach to life he called pure act.

ISBN: 9780823276820

Send Lazarus

Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz

Matthew T. Eggemeier and Peter Joseph Fritz

Contrary to Catholicism’s commitment to mercy, today’s dominant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Central is treatment of four neoliberal-perpetuated and -exacerbated crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation.

ISBN: 9780823288007

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Margaret M. McGuinness, James T. Fisher, Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore, Karen Davalos

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and James T. Fisher

Contributor(s): Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore and Karen Davalos

A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: “'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'.” Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.

ISBN: 9780823282777

The Cruelest of All Mothers

The Cruelest of All Mothers

Mary Dunn

Mary Dunn

In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded,...

ISBN: 9780823282722

American Parishes

American Parishes

Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks, Gary J. Adler Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt, Brian Starks

Edited by Gary J. Adler Jr., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks

Contributor(s): Gary J. Adler Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt and Brian Starks

Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.

ISBN: 9780823284351

The Bread of the Strong

The Bread of the Strong

Jack Lee Downey

Jack Lee Downey

The Bread of the Strong investigates the origins, development, and migration of a Roman Catholic retreat movement founded by Onésime Lacouture, SJ. Although suppressed in its original host region of Québec, it migrated to the United States, thanks largely to John Hugo’s advocacy, and critically influenced Dorothy Day’s spiritual development.

ISBN: 9780823278732

Paul Hanly Furfey

Paul Hanly Furfey

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Nicholas K. Rademacher

Recounts and analyzes Paul Hanly Furfey’s contribution to Catholic social thought and practice in the fields of sociology, social work, and higher education across the twentieth-century in his roles as priest, scholar, educator, and social reformer.

ISBN: 9780823276776

American Parishes

American Parishes

Gary J. Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, Brian Starks, Gary J. Adler, Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt, Brian Starks

Edited by Gary J. Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce and Brian Starks

Contributor(s): Gary J. Adler, Jr., Nancy Ammerman, Mary Jo Bane, Tricia C. Bruce, John A. Coleman, Kathleen Garces-Foley, Mark M. Gray, Brett Hoover, Courtney Irby, Tia Noelle Pratt and Brian Starks

Between individual Catholics and a global institution, thousands of local parishes remake Catholicism each day. With fresh data and sociological methods, this book shows how parishes are shaped by community, geography, and authority; how parishes respond to diversity and change; and how parishes worship and educate for the future of Catholicism.

ISBN: 9780823284344

More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church

More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church

Christine Firer Hinze, J. Patrick Hornbeck II

Edited by Christine Firer Hinze and J. Patrick Hornbeck II

This volume gathers together the reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ persons, their friends, family members, and others, concerning experiences of sexual diversity and the church. It provides an opportunity for a wide audience, inside and outside the Catholic community, to experience the richness of contemporary Catholic faith and practice.

ISBN: 9780823256587

More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church

More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church

J. Patrick Hornbeck II, Michael A. Norko

Edited by J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael A. Norko

This volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.

ISBN: 9780823257638

Empowering the People of God

Empowering the People of God

Jeremy Bonner, Christopher D. Denny, Mary Beth Fraser Connolly

Christopher D. Denny and Mary Beth Fraser Connolly

Edited by Jeremy Bonner

A collection of essays tracing the development of selected Catholic lay apostolates in the decades before and after the Second Vatican Council. Contributors demonstrate how Catholic Action that functioned as an auxiliary of the American bishops gave way to groups more inclined to challenge episcopal authority during the 1960s and 1970s.

ISBN: 9780823254002

The Catholic Studies Reader

The Catholic Studies Reader

James T. Fisher, Margaret M. McGuinness

Edited by James T. Fisher and Margaret M. McGuinness

The Catholic Studies Reader is a rare book in an emerging field that has neither a documented history nor a consensus as to what should be a normative methodology. Dividing this volume into five interrelated...

ISBN: 9780823234110

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

Vivian Cherry, Dorothy Day, Kate Hennessy

Dorothy Day

Edited by Kate Hennessy

A portrait of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement in New York City through photographs taken in 1955 by Vivian Cherry, a documentary photographer, accompanied by excerpts of Dorothy Day’s writings selected and edited by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy.

ISBN: 9780823271368