Neil Betten

American Catholic: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States

Written by one of the foremost historians of American Catholicism, this book presents a comprehensive history of the Roman Catholic Church in America from colonial times to the present. Hennesey examines, in particular, minority Catholics and developments in the western part of the United States, a region often overlooked in religious histories.

Organizing for neighborhood health care: an historical reflection.

The Cincinnati Social Unit began in 1917 and lasted through 1920. It was an early experiment in community organizing for the purpose of improving public health. The data of the time and contemporary evaluations indicate it was highly successful, but its socialist sponsors failed to successfully negate conservative hostility toward the program. It failed to survive because of the politics of post-World War I America.

Catholic Periodicals in Response to Two Divergent Decades

Catholic journalism had the ability to evolve in its social and economic attitudes during two divergent decades. The journals provided different answers to the problems of the day, thus illustrating their independence.