Discusses the growing population of Hispanic-Americans worshipping in the Catholic Church in the United States.

"This is a book about change and about people changing. It is a book abaout women, American Catholic sisters, in passage. It tells of the radical transformation

Situating the church within the context of post-World War II globalization and the Cold War, American Catholicism Transformed draws on previously untapped archi

In this astounding account, a leading sociologist demonstrates that religion in America has become so tamed and softened that it hardly serves any of its origin

Examines the Pittsburgh Diocese (1950s-1970s) to reveal how the Second Vatican Council fits within a longer history of changes already taking place in the Catho