The Catholic Historical Review articles from October 2004

The Catholic Historical Review archives from October 2004

The friars go to war: mendicant military chaplains, 1216-C. 1300.
October 1, 2004... The mendicant orders, particularly the Franciscans and Dominicans, have received enormous scholarly attention, virtually from their inception in 1210 and 1216, respectively, regarding a wide range of topics, but particularly their activities as...

Tacito predicatore: the Annunciation chapel at the Madonna dei Monti in Rome.(Cover Story)
October 1, 2004... Trent could not have been clearer. Images were permitted in churches to instruct the faithful and confirm their faith. And bishops should approve only those commissions and depictions that would serve such purposes. Late in 1563, the council's...

Catholic labor and Catholic Action: the Italian context of Quadragesimo Anno.
October 1, 2004... When Pope Pius XI issued Quadragesimo Anno in 1931, he anticipated the tradition of commemorating each ten-year anniversary of Rerum Novarum of 1891 with another major papal statement on Catholic social teaching in the light of current...

Bridging two worlds: Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, emigre missionary.(Biography)
October 1, 2004... Aristocrats who survived the era of revolution (1775-1848) experienced the collapse of several worlds. The political ideas of the Enlightenment found expression in a call for liberty, equality, and representative government, which challenged...

Influencing the message: the role of Catholic missionaries in media coverage of the Nigerian civil war.
October 1, 2004... British television journalist Alan Hart was wrapping up a reporting trip to the newly proclaimed nation of Biafra in the spring of 1968, having captured film of bloody battles between Biafran rebels and the Nigerian army fighting to keep...

Four histories for the forthcoming fourth centenary of the King James version, 1611-2011.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. By David Daniell. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 900. $40.00.) In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a...

Beginning at Jerusalem: Five Reflections on the History of the Church.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Beginning at Jerusalem: Five Reflections on the History of the Church. By Glenn W. Olsen. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 2004. Pp. 236. Paperback.) This book represents the fruit of a lifetime devoted to the study of history, and...

Christianity: Two Thousand Years.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Christianity: Two Thousand Years. Edited by Richard Harries and Henry Mayr-Harting. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 279. $18.95.) This book originated in a series of public lectures given in Oxford over the academic year...

Educating People of Faith: Exploring the History of Jewish and Christian Communities.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Educating People of Faith: Exploring the History of Jewish and Christian Communities. Edited by John Van Engen. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $30.00 paperback.) A half-century ago...

Exploring the Religious Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Exploring the Religious Life. By Rodney Stark. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 200. $39.95.) Professor Rodney Stark is a brick thrower. That might seem an inapt Irish label for someone whose background is...

Storia delle elezioni pontificie.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Storia delle elezioni pontificie. By Ambrogio M. Piazzoni. 2nd Edition. (Casale Monferrato: Edizioni Piemme. 2003. Pp. 349. [euro]19.90 cloth.) Pope John Paul II has had one of the longest pontificates in the history of the Church. His...

Les Chemins de Rome: Les Visites Ad Limina a l'Epoque Moderne dans l'Europe Meridionale et le Monde Hispano-Americain (XV[I.sup.e]-XI[X.sup.e] siecle).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Les Chemins de Rome: Les Visites Ad Limina a l'Epoque Moderne dans l'Europe Meridionale et le Monde Hispano-Americain (XV[I.sup.e]-XI[X.sup.e] siecle). Edited by Philippe Boutry and Bernard Vincent. [Collection de l'Ecole Francaise de Rome,...

Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Power, Authority, and the Anabaptist Tradition. Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop and Calvin W. Redekop. [Center Books in Anabaptist Studies.] (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. Pp. xvi, 246. $39.95.) "Once we acknowledge...

Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire. Edited by Brian Stanley. [Studies in the History of Christian Missions.] (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 2004. Pp. x, 313. $45.00 paperback.) This volume...

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. By Robert Louis Wilken. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xxiii. 368. $29.95.) One of the great tests of scholarship is to write a good general...

Julian von Aeclanum. Studien zu seinem Leben, seinem Werk, seiner Lehre und ihrer Uberlieferung.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Julian von Aeclanum. Studien zu seinem Leben, seinem Werk, seiner Lehre und ihrer Uberlieferung. By Josef Lossl. [Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. LX.] (Leiden: Brill. 2001. Pp. xvi, 406. [euro]103; U.S. $120.00.) Julian of...

St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography. By Philip Freeman. (New York: Simon & Schuster. 2004. Pp. xix, 216. $24.00.) Patrick, a British bishop, preached Christianity in at least some places in Ireland at some time between the fourth and sixth...

Pretres en Gaule merovingienne.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Pretres en Gaule merovingienne. By Robert Godding. [Subsidia hagiographica, 82.] (Brussels: Societe des Bollandistes. 2001. Pp. lxviii, 559. [euro]110 paperback.) In their treatment of the clergy, studies of the Merovingian church have up...

Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages: A Reader.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Jacqueline Murray. [Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 7.] (Peterborough, Canada: Broadview. 2001. Pp. xiv, 524. $29.95 paperback.) Love, Sex and Marriage in...

Maximus the Confessor and His Companions. Documents from Exile.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Maximus the Confessor and his Companions. Documents from Exile. Edited and translated by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil. [Oxford Early Christian Texts.] (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. xv, 210.) This short volume represents...

Thomas of Marlborough: History of the Abbey of Evesham.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Thomas of Marlborough: History of the Abbey of Evesham. Edited and translated by Jane Sayers and Leslie Watkiss. [Oxford Medieval Texts.] (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2003. Pp. lxxxix, 597. [pounds sterling]95.00; $150.00.) In the...

The Leofric Missal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Leofric Missal. Edited by Nicholas Orchard. Volume I: Introduction, Collation Table and Index; Volume II: Text. [Henry Bradshaw Society, Volumes CXIII and CXIV, issued to members for the years 1999-2000 and 2001-2002.] (Rochester, New York:...

Ermites de France et d'Italie (X[I.sup.e]-X[V.sup.e] siecle).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Ermites de France et d'Italie (X[I.sup.e]-X[V.sup.e] siecle). Edited by Andre Vauchez. [Collection de I'Ecole francaise de Rome, Vol. 313.] (Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome. 2003. Pp. x, 522. [euro]53.) In 1962 a symposium at Mendola was the...

The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Kiss of Peace: Ritual, Self, and Society in the High and Late Medieval West. By Kiril Petkov. [Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, Vol. 17.] (Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. 2003. Pp. viii, 355....

Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons: Approaches to Its Architecture, Archaeology and History.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons: Approaches to its Architecture, Archaeology and History. Edited by Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines. [Bibliotheca Victorina, Vol. XV.] (Turnhout: Brepols. 2003. Pp. 568; 85 b & w figs. [euro]120.) This...

Historical Dictionary of the Crusades.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Historical Dictionary of the Crusades. By Corliss K. Slack. [Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, No. 25.] (Lanham, Maryland, and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press. 2003. Pp. xxiv, 273. $65.00.) This volume joins a...

Die lateinischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem: Von der Eroberung der Heiligen Stadt durch die Kreuzfahrer 1099 bis zum Ende der Kreuzfahrerstaaten 1291.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Die lateinischen Patriarchen von Jerusalem: Von der Eroberung der Heiligen Stadt durch die Kreuzfahrer 1099 bis zum Ende der Kreuzfahrerstaaten 1291. By Klaus-Peter Kirstein. [Berliner Historische Studien, Band 35: Ordensstudien XVI.] (Berlin:...

Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229: Preaching in the Lord's Vineyard. By Beverly Mayne Kienzle. (Rochester, New York: York Medieval Press, Boydell and Brewer. 2001. Pp. xix, 256. $75.00.) With this monograph Beverly...

Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150-1500.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Crusade and Conversion on the Baltic Frontier, 1150-1500. Edited by Alan V. Murray. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2001. Pp. xxvi, 300; 2 maps. $79.95.) This book is all that an anthology should be. Fifteen experts write masterful essays...

The Collectio canonum Casinensis duodecimi seculi (Codex terscriptus).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Collectio canonum Casinensis duodecimi seculi (Codex terscriptus). A Derivative of the South-Italian Collection in Five Books. An Implicit edition with Introductory Study by Roger E. Reynolds. [Studies and Texts, 137.] (Toronto: Pontifical...

English Episcopal Acta. London: 1189-1228.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... English Episcopal Acta. London: 1189-1228. Edited by D. P. Johnson. [English Episcopal Acta, Volume 26.] (New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2003. Pp. cx, 278. $65.00.) This is the second volume for London and the...

The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Deeds of Pope Innocent III by an Anonymous Author. Translated with an introduction and notes by James M. Powell. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. 2004. Pp. xlv, 286. $59.95.) There survives no authorial...

Francis of Assisi: History, Hagiography and Hermeneutics in the Early Documents.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Francis of Assisi: History, Hagiography and Hermeneutics in the Early Documents. Edited by Jay M. Hammond. (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. 2004. Pp. 290. $19.95 paperback.) This book follows on the three-volume publication (1999-2001,...

Des nations a evangeliser: Genese de la mission catholique pour l'Exteme-Orient.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Des nations a evangeliser: Genese de la mission catholique pour l'Exteme-Orient. By Roland Jacques. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 715. [euro]44 paperback.) Christ's Great Commission to His followers, "Go and teach all nations,"...

France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Edited by Daniel H. Weiss and Lisa Mahoney. [Paralax: Re-visions of Culture and Society.] (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. Pp. xx, 375....

The Mozarabic Cardinal: The Life and Times of Gonzalo Perez Gudiel.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Mozarabic Cardinal: The Life and Times of Gonzalo Perez Gudiel. By Francisco J. Hernandez and Peter Linehan. (Florence: Sismel, Edizioni del Galluzzo. 2004. Pp. xxvi, 644. [euro]75.00.) The Mozarabic cardinal was born, probably in...

Rotuli Parisienses. Supplications to the Pope from the University of Paris, Volume I: 1316-1349.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Rotuli Parisienses. Supplications to the Pope from the University of Paris, Volume I: 1316-1349, edited by William J. Courtenay; Volume II: 1352-1378, edited by William J. Courtenay and Eric D. Goddard. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages...

The Monarchia Controversy: An Historical Study with Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri's Monarchia, Guido Vernani's Refutation of the "Monarchia" Composed by Dante, and Pope John XXII's Bull Si fratrum.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Monarchia Controversy: An Historical Study with Accompanying Translations of Dante Alighieri's Monarchia, Guido Vernani's Refutation of the "Monarchia" Composed by Dante, and Pope John XXII's Bull Si fratrum. By Anthony K. Cassell....

Pope John XXII and His Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Pope John XXII and His Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy. By Patrick Nold. (New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 212.) During the 1320's a dramatic confrontation took...

Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500: A Biographical Register.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Parisian Licentiates in Theology, A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register. Vol. 1: The Religious Orders. By Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 18.] (Leiden: Brill. 2004. Pp. xii, 465....

Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages. By Claire M. Waters. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 282. $55.00.) Claire Waters identifies two central points of her...

Matrimoni in dubbio: Unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Matrimoni in dubbio: Unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento--Quaderni, 57.] (Bologna: II Mulino....

Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England. By Christine Peters. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] (New York: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp. xvi, 389. $65.00.) Christine...

St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: New Directions and Interpretations.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... St. Joseph in Italian Renaissance Society and Art: New Directions and Interpretations. By Carolyn C. Wilson. (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press. 2001. Pp. xxiv, 281. $49.95.) In her intriguing and substantial book Dr. Carolyn...

Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Finding the Middle Way: The Utraquists' Liberal Challenge to Rome and Luther. By Zdenek V. David. (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. Order from The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2003. Pp. xxiii, 579. $65.00.) ...

Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Religion and Superstition in Reformation Europe. Edited by Helen Parish and William G. Naphy. (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. Pp. x, 239. $24.95.) This collection of nine essays purports to offer a discussion of...

Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Bishops and Reform in the English Church, 1520-1559. By Kenneth Carleton. [Studies in Modern British Religious History, Volume 3.] (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press. 2001. Pp. x, 226. $75.00.) Kenneth Carleton has supplied a deficit...

Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England. By Will Coster. [St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.] (Brookfield, Vermont: The Ashgate Press. 2002. Pp. xviii, 323. $94.95.) What social and religious changes occurred with the...

I Cappuccini nell'Umbria del Cinquecento (1525-1619).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... I Cappuccini nell'Umbria del Cinquecento (1525-1619). Edited by Vincenzo Criscuolo [Bibliotheca Seraphico-Capuccina, 62.] (Rome: Istituto Storico dei Cappuccini. 2003. Pp. 370. Paperback.) This is a collection of twelve presentations given...

L'orazione proibita. Censura ecclesiastica e letteratura devozionale nella prima eta moderna.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... L'orazione proibita. Censura ecclesiastica e letteratura devozionale nella prima eta moderna. By Giorgio Caravale. [Biblioteca della Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa: Studi, XVII.] (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore. 2003. Pp. xi, 233....

Registres du Consistoire de Geneve au temps de Calvin: Tome III (1547-1548).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Registres du Consistoire de Geneve au temps de Calvin: Tome III (1547-1548). Edited by Thomas A. Lambert and Isabella M. Watt, under the direction of Robert Kingdon. [Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, N[degrees] CCCLXXXVII.] (Geneva:...

"Questo Passo dell'Heresia": Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, 'Spirituali' e Inquisizione.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... "Questo Passo dell'Heresia": Pietrantonio di Capua tra Valdesiani, 'Spirituali' e Inquisizione. By Dario Marcatto. [Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Serie Studi XXV.] (Naples: Bibliopolis. 2003. Pp. 262. [euro]35,00 paperback.) ...

From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650. Edited by Pamela M. Jones and Thomas Worcester. [Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples, Volume 14.] (Leiden: Brill. 2002. Pp. ix, 277....

Matrimoni di antico regime.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Matrimoni di antico regime. By Daniela Lombardi. [Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento, Monografie, Vol. 34.] (Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino. 2001. Pp. 513. [euro]28.92 paperback.) Medieval marriage has become a...

Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Between Exaltation and Infamy: Female Mystics in the Golden Age of Spain. By Stephen Haliczer. (New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. Pp. vi, 349.) In this study, Stephen Haliczer relies on two major sources: thirty biographies and...

Pietas Austriaca.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Pietas Austriaca. By Anna Coreth. Translated by William D. Bowman and Anna Maria Leitgeb. (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press. 2004. Pp. xxxvi, 117. $19.95 paperback.) William D. Bowman and Anna Maria Leitgeb have made...

Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. By Yasmin Annabel Haskell. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph. (New York: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 353....

Teatri di formazione: Actio, parola e immagine nella scena gesuitica del Sei-Settecento a Milano.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Teatri di formazione: Actio, parola e immagine nella scena gesuitica del Sei-Settecento a Milano. By Giovanna Zanlonghi. [La Citta e lo Spettacolo, Vol. 13.] (Milan: Vita e Pensiero. 2002. Pp. xxvi, 398 [euro]34 paperback.) In the last...

Lamspringe. An English Abbey in Germany, 1643-1803.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Lamspringe. An English Abbey in Germany, 1643-1803. Edited by Anselm Cramer. [Saint Laurence Papers VII.] (York: Ampleforth Abbey. Distributed in the United States by Anthony Garnett Fine Books, P.O. Box 4918, St. Louis, Missouri 63 108. 2004....

"Promising Hope": Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesuss...in Honour of the 200th Anniversary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... "Promising Hope": Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Essays... in Honour of the 200th Anniversary. Edited by Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. 2003. Pp....

Rankes "Papste" auf dem Index. Dogma und Historie im Widerstreit.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Rankes "Papste" auf dem Index. Dogma und Historie im Widerstreit. By Hubert Wolf, Dominik Burkhard, and Ulrich Muhlack. [Romische Inquisition und Indexkongregation, Vol. 3.] (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. 2003. Pp. 218. [euro]32.00.) ...

Leon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Leon Harmel: Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer. By Joan L. Coffey. [Catholic Social Tradition Series, Volume 1.] (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. Pp. x, 340. $48.00.) The figure of Leon Harmel (1829-1915),...

Les congregations hors la loi?: Autour de la loi du [1.sup.er] juillet 1901.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Les congregations hors la loi?: Autour de la loi du [1.sup.er] juillet 1901. Edited by Jacqueline Lalouette and Jean-Pierre Machelon. (Paris: Letouzey and Ane. 2002. Pp. 304. [euro]35 paperback.) Secularisation, separation et guerre...

Henri Irenee Marrou: Historien engage.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Henri Irenee Marrou: Historien engage. By Pierre Riche. (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf. 2003. Pp. 417. [euro]35 paperback.) This biography of Marrou serves not only as a record of his work, of the educational, cultural, and religious...

L'Affermazione del Cattolicesimo nel Nord America: Elite, Emigranti e Chiesa Cattolica negli Stati Uniti e in Canada, 1750-1920.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... L'Affermazione del Cattolicesimo nel Nord America: Elite, Emigranti e Chiesa Cattolica negli Stati Uniti e in Canada, 1750-1920. By Matteo Sanfilippo. (Viterbo: Sette Citta. 2003. Pp. 329. [euro]22,00 paperback.) The only drawback to this...

A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-1770. By Juan Crespi. Edited and translated by Alan K. Brown. (San Diego: San Diego State University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 848. $60.00.) Spanish...

American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon. By Stephen Prothero. (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2003. Pp. 364. $25.00 clothbound; $14.00 paperback.) American Jesus is a delightful, engaging read, geared toward a wide...

Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Tar Heel Catholics: A History of Catholicism in North Carolina. By William F. Powers. (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 2003. Pp. xx, 532. $49.95 cloth; $34.95 paperback.) The story of the establishment and unfolding of...

Pierre Toussaint.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Pierre Toussaint. By Arthur Jones. (New York: Doubleday. 2003. Pp. ix, 342. $24.95.) Arthur Jones, editor-at-large of the National Catholic Reporter, mentions that, when Pierre Toussaint died in 1853, "he was hailed as the most respected...

Passing for White--Race, Religion, and the Healy Family 1820-1920.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Passing for White--Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920. By James M. O'Toole. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2002. Pp. xiii. 285. $34.95.) In the winter of 1951, seventy-three-year-old Bessie Cunningham did not...

Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence. By Evelyn Savidge Sterne. [Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America.] (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 294. $34.95.)...

Wake for a Fat Vicar: Father Juan Felipe Ortiz, Archbishop Lamy, and the New Mexican Catholic Church in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Wake for a Fat Vicar: Father Juan Felipe Ortiz, Archbishop Lamy, and the New Mexican Catholic Church in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. By Fray Angelico Chavez and Thomas E. Chavez. (Albuquerque: LPD Press. 2004. Pp. v, 217. $25.95...

Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions: Father Philip Rappagliosi.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions: Father Philip Rappagliosi. Edited by Robert Bigart. Translated from the Italian by Anthony Mattina and Lisa Moore Nardini; translated from the German by Ulrich Stengel. (Lincoln: University of...

United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives: A Calendar, Volume Twelve.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... United States Documents in the Propaganda Fide Archives: A Calendar, Volume Twelve. Compiled by Anton Debevec; edited by William J. Short, O.F.M. (Berkeley, California: Academy of American Franciscan History. 2002. Pp. x, 355.) After an...

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays. Edited by William J. Thorn, Phillip M. Runkel, and Susan Mountin. [Marquette Studies in Theology, No. 32.] (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. 2001. Pp. 615. $30.00 paperback.)...

Ordini religiosi, santita e culti: prospettive di ricerca tra Europa e America Latina. Atti del Seminario di Roma 21-22 giugno 2001.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Ordini religiosi, santita e culti: prospettive di ricerca tra Europa e America Latina. Atti del Seminario di Roma 21-22 giugno 2001. Compiled by Gabriella Zarri. [Universita degli Studi di Lecce--Studi Storici, 59.] (Galatina [Lecce], Italy:...

Alone Before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Alone before God: The Religious Origins of Modernity in Mexico. By Pamela Voekel. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 336. $64.95 clothbound; $21.95 paperback.) If you have ever wandered through Mexico's many...

Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Reclaiming Church Wealth: The Recovery of Church Property after Expropriation in the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, 1860-1911. By Jose Roberto Juarez. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2004. Pp. x, 251. $45.00.) This study fills a...

Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City. By Patience A. Schell. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2003. Pp. xxvii, 253. $50.00.) Patience Schell has produced a thorough study of the convergence between the Catholic...

Notes and comments.
October 1, 2004... The Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association The 2004 spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association convened at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida, on April 16 and 17. Participants were housed at...

Periodical literature.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2004... GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS O movimento historico: produto da (des)razao. Um ensaio sobre a filosofia catolica da historia (1800-1960). Ivan A. Manoel. Revista Eclesiastica Brasileira, 64 (Apr., 2004), 294-316. Grundlagen und Theorie der...

Other books received.
October 1, 2004... Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. Second Edition. Foreword and concluding chapter by David D. Hall. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 1192. $30.00 paperback.) Originally published in...