Boston Priests, 1848-1910: A Study of Social and Intellectual Change

by Donna Merwick

Donna Merwick rejects the usual assumption that Boston Catholicism is, definitively, Irish Catholicism. In her penetrating study of three distinct generations of Boston priests in the late nineteenth century, the author shows that Irish Catholicism met with steady opposition. Her account of the struggle of Boston clerics and intellectuals to relate their faith to their experiences in the changing city provides a new interpretation of Boston Catholic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067442106X
• ISBN13: 9780674421066
• Release Date: February 1973
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"