Priest, parish, and people
Subtitle: saving the faith in Philadelphia's "little Italy"
By: Richard N. Juliani.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780268032654
Subjects: Church work with immigrants -- Catholic Church; Italian Americans -- History; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Italian church in Philadelphia; title: European politics, American Catholicism, and Italian immigration; title: Portrait of a young priest; title: The challenge of leadership; title: Saving the children; title: Columbus and other heroes : the search for identity; title: Building parish and community; title: The nineties : new problems and solutions; title: The "Italian problem" : Catholic and Protestant responses; title: A new century; title: Saving the faith of southern Italians; title: Beyond South Philadelphia; title: Final years of a priest; title: The dismemberment of Our Lady of Good Counsel.