The American Catholic Revolution

• Provides a new master narrative for understanding the current state of American Catholicism, one which seeks to move beyond polarizing labels of ''liberal'' and ''conservative''
• Offers a reconsideration of what we thought we knew about major Catholic figures
• Sheds new light on debates that are shaking the Church

Readership: General readers, especially Catholics, and students and scholars of American religion.

Mark S. Massa, SJ, Karl Rahner Distinguished Professor of Theology and Co-Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, Fordham University

Mark S. Massa, SJ, is Karl Rahner Professor of Theology and Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, at Fordham University, as well as the author of Anti-Catholicism in America and other books.

Preface: ''Something Irreversible Has Happened''
1.: A Brief History of Catholic Time
2.: Frederick McManus and Worship in the United States
3.: Humanae Vitae in the United States
4.: The Charles Curran Affair
5.: The Dangers of History
6.: ''Death Shall Have No Dominion!''
7.: Avery Dulles and the Law of Unintended Consequences
8.: Things Change
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index