Dean Lings's Church
The Success of Ethnic Catholicism in Yonkers in the 1890s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3678293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J Shelley (St. Joseph’s Seminary and College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-41 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3170495 |
| OpenAlex | W2148313310 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
From the period after the Revolutionary War, when Philadelphia and New York merchants first replaced Maryland planters as the lay elite, American Catholicism has been predominantly urban. This became especially noticeable in the late nineteenth century when large numbers of European immigrants swelled the Catholic ranks in many cities of the Northeast and Midwest. The astonishing ethnic variety of the newcomers made the American Catholic Church more "catholic" than ever before, which was a boon to Catholic apologists, but a nightmare for the American bishops. To their credit, they responded to this pastoral challenge imaginatively and effectively by creating an extensive network of "national parishes" for virtually every sizable ethnic group
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |