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Summary: "A shocking expose of the dark, secret history of Catholic orphanages--the violence, abuse, and even murder that took place within their walls-- and a call to hold the powerful to account. More than 5 million Americans passed through orphanages in the 20th century alone. At its peak in the 1930s, the American orphanage system included more than 1,600 institutions, partly supported with public...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.73 KENFirst Catholic Slovak Union of America
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Union 1955
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373 C286Massa, Mark Stephen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crossroad Pub. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.62 MASGreeley, Andrew M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 GREO'Toole, James
Summary: From the Publisher: Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Catholics in America are at a crossroads. But is today's situation unique? And where will Catholicism go from here? With the belief that we understand our present by studying our past, James O'Toole offers a bold and panoramic history of the American Catholic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 OTOBruni, Frank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.832 BRUSte. Anne de Detroit Roman Catholic Church (Detroit, Mich.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custombook 1976
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377434 DetroitBriggs, Kenneth A.
Summary: A study of the treatment of nuns by the Roman Catholic Church in America criticizes the church's betrayal of promised reforms, revealing a pattern of exploitation that has reduced nuns to second-class citizens within the church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 BRIGillis, Chester
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 282.73 GILMerton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 271.125 MERHyzy, Julie A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYZDouthat, Ross Gregory
Summary: Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 277.3 DOUGallagher, Charles R.
Summary: "During WWII, a group of American Catholics openly embraced Nazism. Their armed wing, the Christian Front, stockpiled weapons for the revolution. Charles Gallagher unearths the history of these forgotten terrorists, the mainstream leaders who protected them, the powers who brought them down, and a society that has suppressed their memory"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 GALCutié, Albert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 282.092 CUTSummary: A serious exploration of some of the questions surrounding religious vocation in an aggressively secular culture, the series chronicles several emotional weeks in the lives of four young men as they struggle with the decision to enter the seminary and become Roman Catholic priests. All grapple with the sacrifices they would have to make should they enter the priesthood, including the vow of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Television Networks 2006