Keeping Faith: European and Asian Catholic Immigrants - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597529087 ISBN 13: 9781597529082

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2006

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Jeffrey M. Burns is archivist at Chancery Archives, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and is adjunct professor of history at four Bay area universities. Ellen Skerrett, editor of At the Crossroads, is an independent scholar specializing in the history of Irish Catholics in Chicago. Writer and historian Joseph M. White is author of The Diocesan Seminary in the United States and is working on the centennial history of the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597529087
• ISBN 13: 9781597529082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Burns Jeffrey M., Skerrett Ellen, White Joseph M.