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The Catholic Church in the United States Between Two Wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Thomas T. McAvoy
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In The Catholic Church in the United States one can detect with differences of proportion, almost all the elements which go to make up this great democracy of ours. There are rich Catholics and poor, educated Catholics and illiterate, native-born and immigrant, urban and rural, and in one sense, there are even practicing Catholics and fallen away. Yet, despite the formlessness of American Catholicism, there is a definite tangible unity among Catholics which has been baffling to many outside her fold. This unity is derived from the special purpose and the nature of the Catholic organization which transcend those accidental relationships.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1942 , pp. 409 - 431
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1942

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