Rome in America: Transnational Catholic Ideology from the Risorgimento to Fascism

by Peter R. D'Agostino

D'Agostino examines the origins of Catholic conflict with American liberalism, showing how Catholics participated in an international culture of shared myths, rituals, and symbols that glorified papal Rome. When Mussolini and the pope established Vatican

408 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2004

Reviews

[Dan McCollum · Rating 5 out of 5]

I recently read this as part of my PhD research into the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. I was taken by the transnational character of the work and how the author's challanging of the previous historiography which stressed the independence of the American Church and its seperation from the events in Europe. Very well researched and written, this is one of the best works I've read on American Catholicism over the past year. It should be noted that D'Agostino does not why away from the more negative aspects of Church history, including the strange alliance that the heirarchy made with Fascist Italy in the years leadign up to the Second World War.