Seasons of Grace : A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: 1833-1887 -- 1. Three Bishops -- 2. The Diocesan Clergy: The First Fifty Years -- The Education of the Clergy -- 3. Religion and Parish Life: The Experience of the Laity -- Sacramental Practice and Devotional Life -- "I can rest secure in the Catholic faith": Religious Experience in a Michigan Village -- Parish Life: Government and Finance -- Lay Charitable Societies -- Catholics and Temperance -- 4. Catholic Education: The Foundation Years -- Secondary Schooling and Higher Education -- 5. Catholics in a Non-Catholic World -- Intermarriage -- Contraception and Abortion -- Religion and Politics -- "A body of Christian gentlemen": Organized Charity and Interreligious Cooperation -- Catholics as a Community: The Significance of Ethnic Divisions -- Part II: 1888-1918 -- 6. The Foley Episcopate -- The Man and His City -- Aspirations and Modest Achievements -- Who Is the Church? Conflict in the Foley Years -- The Kolasinski Case -- The "Church Farm" Case -- The Father Francis Kennedy Case -- 7. The Diocesan Clergy: The Foley Years -- "An Inward Call": Recruitment and Training -- The Priest's Career -- Priests in Trouble -- 8. The Laity: A Time of Transition -- Sacramental Practice -- Liturgy and Devotions -- Death and the Catholic Religious Sensibility -- Religious Education -- The Parish as a Community: Social Life, Parish Organizations -- Organizations for Boys and Young Men -- Organizations for Men -- Organizations for Women and Girls -- Parish Government -- Charity and Social Service -- 9. Catholic Sisters, Catholic Schools -- Secondary Education -- Higher Education -- 10. Catholics and the Larger Society -- Intermarriage, Divorce, and Contraception -- Politics -- In Wartime -- Catholics and Protestants in Michigan's Small Towns.

Part III: 1919-1958 -- 11. Maturity: The Gallagher and Mooney Episcopates -- The Gallagher Years -- The Mooney Episcopate -- Father Coughlin -- Labor -- Finances -- Organization -- 12. The Diocesan Clergy -- "Away and retired from the world": The Seminaries -- Americans Abroad: European Seminary Training -- Priestly Life and Work -- Priests in Military Service -- Guest House -- 13. The Laity -- Sacramental Practice -- Devotional Life -- Liturgical Reform -- "Mission Consciousness" -- Religious Education -- Ethnicity and Parish Government -- Lay Organizations -- 14. Catholic Education -- "Bigotry is not dead": The School Amendment -- School Reform -- Higher Education -- 15. Catholics in a Changing World -- Intermarriage, Divorce, and Contraception -- Politics -- War and Rumors of War -- Catholics and Race -- Epilogue: From 1958 to the Present -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

Seasons of Grace is a history of the catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s through the 1950s.

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