Endnotes for Evangelization in the United States: Past, Present, and Future

by Father John McCloskey

1. Hennesey, James, S.J. American Catholics (Oxford University Press, 1981)

2. Ibid.

3. Weigel, George.Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy. (Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ, 1989); Schindler, David L. (ed.).Catholicism and Secularization in America. (Communio Books, Notre Dame, 1990)

4. O'Connell, Marvin. "An Historical Perspective on Evangelization in the U.S.," Teaching the Catholic Faith. (St. John's University Edition, New York, 1991), p. 1-17

5. Hennesey, op. cit., p. 196-9

6. Ibid., p. 307-9

7. von Hildebrand, Dietrich. Trojan Horse in the City of God. (Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, 1967); Martin, Ralph. A Crisis of Truth. (Servant Books, Ann Arbor, 1982); Muggeridge, Anne Roche.The Desolate City (2nd ed.). (Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1990); Maritain, Jacques. The Peasant of the Garrone. (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1968)

8. Siri, Joseph Cardinal. Gethsemane. (Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, 1981)

9. Strangely enough this over-emphasis on social problems often coincides with an apparent ignorance of the Church's extensive social doctrine, summed up in the series of great social encyclicals starting with Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum in 1891, and extending to the recent Centessimus Annus of Pope John Paul II.

10. Kelly, George A. The Crisis of Authority. (Regnery Gateway, Chicago, 1982); Kelly, George A. The Battle for the American Church. (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, 1979)

11. Day, Thomas. Why Catholics Can't Sing. (Crossroads, New York, 1990; Hitchcock, James. The New Enthusiasts. (The Thomas More Press, Chicago, 1982)

12. Varacalli, Joseph A., Ph.D. "Neo-Orthodoxy, the Crisis of Authority, and the Future of the Catholic Church in the United States," Faith and Reason. (Front Royal, VA 1989), Vol XV, No, 23.

13. O'Kane, James, Ph.D. (Eugene V. Clark, ed.) "A Sociological View of U.S. Catholicism," Teachings of the Catholic Faith. (St. John's University Press, New York, 1991)

14. Varacalli, Joseph A., Ph.D. "The State of the American Catholic Laity: Propositions and Proposals," Faith and Reason. (Front Royal, VA 1987), Vol. XIII, No. 2.

15. Maritain, Jacques. Reflections on America. (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1958)

16. Walsh, David. After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundatlons of Freedom. (Harper, San Francisco, 1991)

17. Baram, Robert (ed.). Spiritual Journeys (St. Paul Editions, 1988)

18. Neuhaus, Richard John. The Catholic Moment. (Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1987)