The English origins of American Catholicism -- Prescience, pluralism, and profit -- Inconsistencies and consequences -- Catholic commitment in an inhospitable climate -- The inconsistency of intolerance -- Papists become patriots
Summary
This volume considers how and why colonial Catholics embraced the individualistic, rights-oriented ideology of the American Revolution, in spite of the fact that the Revolution's rhetoric was riddled with anti-Catholicism, and even though Catholicism has had an uneasy relationship with Enlightenment liberalism until very recently
