Title: American Catholic lay groups and transatlantic social reform in the progressive era /
Authors: Moloney, Deirdre M.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Christian sociology Catholic Church United States History of doctrines; Christian sociology Catholic Church United States History of doctrines; Catholics United States History; Catholics United States History; Laity Catholic Church History; Laity Catholic Church History; Progressivism (United States politics); Christian sociology Catholic Church History of doctrines; Christian sociology Catholic Church History of doctrines; Christian sociology United States History of doctrines; Christian sociology United States History of doctrines; United States Social conditions
Contents: 1. Celebrating an American Catholic Legacy -- 2. Combating "Whisky's Work": Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Catholic Temperance Reform -- 3. The Friendly Hand and the Helping Purse: Catholic Immigration and Rural Colonization Programs -- 4. Poverty and Proselytizers: Lay Catholic Charitable and Settlement Work -- 5. Promoting the Maternal over Material, Ideal over Idle: The Emergence of Catholic Women's Groups.