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Article: American Catholic Lay Groups and Transatlantic Social Reform in the Progressive Era.(Book Review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- March 22, 2003
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By Deirdre M. Moloney. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 267 pp. $49.95 cloth; $19.95 paper.
Deirdre Moloney, an historian at St. Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania, has given us a fine introduction to the issues surrounding lay Catholic movements between 1880-1925. Unlike some earlier works that concentrate on a particular initiative or group, she works with several different charitable efforts in ways that allow her to comment on gender, ethnicity, and class. The book is a revised dissertation and retains some of the repetition and caution usually associated with a first work as she shows Catholics struggling to define ...