The church and modern society
By: lectures and addresses by John Ireland
Publisher: Pioneer Press Mfg. Depts.
Published: 1905
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: [V. 1] The Catholic church and civil society. The mission of Catholics in America. The church and the age. Human progress. Patriotism. American citizenship. State schools and parish schools. The Catholic church and liberal education. Intemperance and law. The Catholic church and the saloon. Charity in the Catholic church. Social purity. America in France. the pontiff of the age; title: v. 2. The friend of America: Gilbert Motler, marquis de La Fayette. Jeanne d'Arc, patron saint of patriotism. War and peace. Conscience: the mainstay of democracy. The American republic: the ideal embodiment of democracy. Abraham Lincoln: the savior of the union, the exemplar of democracy. Devotion to truth: the virtue of the teacher. Leo XIII. The pope's civil princedom. The church in America. Fifty years of Catholicity in the Northwest. A Catholic sisterhood in the Northwest. A Catholic sisterhood and education. Personal liberty and labor strikes. Labor and capital. Religion, deepest instinct of the human soul. Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today: and the same forever.