Divided Friends: Portraits of the Roman Catholic Modernist Crisis in the United States
"A splendid study. Portier has unearthed a wealth of new material which he interprets brilliantly. His account of how the Modernist crisis affected four significant individuals combines historical sensitivity, theological insight, and deep—but not uncritical—sympathy. In analyzing the dilemmas they faced, he illuminates the situation of American Catholicism in that era and at the same time suggests new lines of inquiry for the future."—Phillip Gleason, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Notre Dame