Catholic schools were swiftly built to accommodate the influx of Catholic schoolchildren, and convents and monasteries blossomed as vocations soared.
The Catholic hierarchy and laity factored into many of the great stories of twentieth-century America, which are told here by one of our country’s foremost experts on Catholic American history, Fr. In these informative and entertaining pages, you’ll learn:What motivated the virulent anti-Catholicism of early twentieth-century AmericaThe daring way Notre Dame students responded when the KKK held a rally in South BendAnd much moreBy the end of the Civil War, barely four million Catholics lived on American soil. Toil and Transcendence: Catholicism In 20Th-Century America Smith, turned New England into a reliable voting bloc for the Democrats FDR’s response to New York’s Cardinal Spellman, who pleaded with the president to protect the Vatican and the pope from German forces during World War II How Bishop Fulton Sheen’s phone call to a political operative accused of spreading anti-Catholic messages led to his conversion to the Faith How, finally, in 1984, the United States was able to formalize diplomatic relations with the Holy See and much more! | Toil and Transcendence: Catholicism In 20Th-Century America In these informative and entertaining pages, you’ll learn: What motivated the virulent anti-Catholicism of early twentieth-century America The daring way Notre Dame students responded when the KKK held a rally in South Bend One businessman’s bold attempt to build Catholic colonies in Nebraska and Minnesota How, in 1928, the first Catholic major party nominee for president, Alfred E.