Americanism and the Collapse of the Church in the United States

by John C. Rao, William A. Marra (Foreword)

A Remnant Reprint

Genres: Religion, Christianity, Catholic

51 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Dr. John C. Rao, D. Phil. Oxon., is Associate Professor of History at St. John's University and Director of the Roman Forum (also see the Roman Forum Facebook page). A well-regarded speaker as well as writer, Dr. Rao presents lecture series on Church history in New York and as part of the Roman Forum's Summer Symposium at Lake Garda in Italy. The New York lecture series is open to the general public, and applications for the Summer Symposium are available through the Roman Forum's website. Tapes of those and other lectures are available from Keepthefaith.org.

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great study for such a short book. Dr. Rao shows that the Catholic Church in the U.S. was clearly in trouble before Vatican II, such as praising the seperation of Church and State as a good thing. I was able to see the parallels between Americanism and Modernism (although the author doesn't go into this).