Juliani, Richard N.

Priest, parish, and people : saving the faith in Philadelphia's "little Italy" / Richard N. Juliani. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (x, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- The Italian church in Philadelphia -- European politics, American Catholicism, and Italian immigration -- Portrait of a young priest -- The challenge of leadership -- Saving the children -- Columbus and other heroes : the search for identity -- Building parish and community -- The nineties : new problems and solutions -- The "Italian problem" : Catholic and Protestant responses -- A new century -- Saving the faith of southern Italians -- Beyond South Philadelphia -- Final years of a priest -- The dismemberment of Our Lady of Good Counsel -- Epilogue: Parish, priest, and people.




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Church work with immigrants--Catholic Church.
Italian Americans--History.


Electronic Books.

BX2347 / .P754 2007