TY - BOOK AU - Massa,Mark Stephen TI - Catholics and American culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame football team SN - 9780824515379 AV - BX1406.M414.C384 1999 PY - 1999/// CY - New York PB - Crossroad Pub. Company KW - Catholics KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Christianity and culture N1 - 1 (pages 233-269) and index; Introduction : "Oh, the irony of it all" -- Boundary maintenance : Leonard Feeney, the Boston heresy case, and the postwar culture --; Young man Merton : Thomas Merton and the postwar "religious revival" -- Catholicism as a cultural system : Joe McCarthy, Clifford Geertz, and the "conspiracy so immense" -- "Life is worth living" : Fulton J. Sheen and the paradoxes of Catholic "arrival" -- "The downward path" : Dorothy Day, anti-structure, and the Catholic Worker movement --; A Catholic for President? : JFK, Peter Berger, and the "secular" theology of the Houston speech, 1960 -- "Into uncertain life" : the first Sunday of Advent 1964 -- "To be beautiful, human, and Christian" : the IHM nuns and the routinization of charisma --; Thomism and the t-formation in 1966 : Ethnicity, American Catholic higher education, and the Notre Dame football team --; Conclusion : Magnalia Christi Americana; 2 ER -