Keeping Faith European and Asian Catholic Immigrants   Jeffrey M. Burns, Ellen Skerrett, and Joseph M. White, EDITORS Fascinating original documents trace the experience and practices of ethnic groups in the United States and how these communities contributed to the evolution of the American Catholic identity.
June ISBN 1-57075-317-2 Hardcover $50.00 ISBN 1-57075-297-4 Paper $25.00 Photographs 304pp. 6 x 9-1/4

 Contents:
Section I: Establishing the Immigrant Church—French-Irish Tensions; The Irish Triumphant;The Germans; The Germans and Irish;
Section II: Concerns of the Immigrant Church—Church Building; Catholic Practice and Ethnic Identity; Temperance; Anti-Catholicism/Parochial Schools; Fraternal Groups, Women and Labor;
Section III: Diversifying the Immigrant Church—The Italians; The Polish; Eastern Europeans; Other Groups;
Section IV: The Consolidation of the Immigrant Church—1924;
Section V: Asians and the New Immigration—The Chinese; The Japanese; The Filipinos; The Vietnamese; The Koreans;
Section VI: New Models and Concerns—New Models; Refugees.

Jeffrey M. Burns is archivist at Chancery Archives, Archdiocese of San Francisco and adjunct professor of history in four Bay-area universities. Ellen Skerrett is an independent scholar specializing in the history of Irish Catholicism in Chicago and the editor of At the Crossroads. Joseph M. White is an historian working on the centennial history of the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor.

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