Keeping Faith: European and Asian Catholic Immigrants

Keeping Faith: European and Asian Catholic Immigrants
ISBN-10
1597529087
ISBN-13
9781597529082
Series
Keeping Faith
Category
Religion
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
2006-09-01
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Authors
Jeffrey M. Burns, Joseph M. White, Ellen Skerrett

Description

The Catholic Church in the United States has always been an immigrant church, from the earliest arrivals of the Spanish and English, to the influx of Irish, Germans, Italians, and other Europeans in the nineteenth century, to the most recent arrivals from the Philippines and Vietnam. Over two centuries countless laymen and laywomen worked with priests and religious to build and support churches and schools, laying the foundation for the Catholic Church in the United States. The wealth of original documents and photographs in Keeping Faith provides as no other source does a thorough and compelling portrait of these immigrants and their impact on the American Catholic institutions and American Catholic experience.

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