American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World

Histories of the Catholic Church in the United States abound. Most suffer from an excess of either scholarly detachment or popular triumphalism. American Pilgrimage seeks instead to draw on the best of current scholarship to tell the story of the Church as it understands itself: the Body of Christ, divinely ordained yet marred by sin, charged with the mission of spreading the Gospel and building up the community of the faithful.

In scope, American Pilgrimage narrates the story of the Church from the dramatic efforts at evangelization in the colonial period, to the Catholic urban villages of the immigrant Church, to the struggles to reimagine tradition in the late-20th century. In shape, it follows this story through the Augustinian contours of the ongoing struggle between the City of God and the City of Man--a struggle that takes place between the Church and the world, within the Church itself, and within the soul of every Christian.

ISBN-13: 9781950939947

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Augustine Institute - Ignatius Press

Publication Date: 06-15-2022

Pages: 580

Product Dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.62(d)

Christopher Shannon is an Associate Professor of History at Christendom College. He is the author of several works of American cultural and intellectual history, including, with Christopher O. Blum, The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Guadalupe 1

Part I Seeds 9

Chapter 1 Spain 11

Chapter 2 France 79

Chapter 3 England 149

Part II Fruits 215

Chapter 4 Parishes 217

Chapter 5 Walls 283

Chapter 6 Bridges 329

Part III Seasons 393

Chapter 7 Lent 395

Chapter 8 Ordinary Time 431

Chapter 9 Advent 477

Conclusion: Easter 521

Index 533

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