American Catholics: A History/Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from Risorgimento to Fascism

The canonical texts of postwar American Catholic history, particularly those of John Tracey Ellis, Jay Dolan and James Hennessey, have been informed by an overriding concern with the Church's attempt to accommodate its· practices and beliefs to the dictates of the American democratic creed. The book covers such familiar topics as colonial Catholicism, immigration and nativism, the Americanist controversy, Progressive Era social thought, New Deal and Cold War Catholicism, and the response to Vatican II. D'Agostino's claim is that developments in Italian-Vatican relations were international events in which American Catholics, especially Italian American Catholics, actively participated.