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Reviewed by Anne M. Butler | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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Worthy of the Gospel of Christ
A History of the Catholic Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend

By Joseph M. White
(Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, 2007. Pp. xiv, 609. Illustrations, notes, index. Paperbound, $29.95.)

Joseph M. White undertakes the ambitious task of presenting a sweeping narrative history of the Roman Catholic diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana. In the main, albeit not exclusively, the author draws on an enormous and varied collection of secondary sources in his effort to demonstrate how a small pioneer mission effort grew into a substantive religious presence in the state. The book is divided into four parts: the early initiatives of frontier Catholics, the establishment of the Fort Wayne bishopric, the administrative and cultural expansion of the first half of the twentieth century, and the forces that propelled the diocese through the second fifty years of the century and into the next. Subjects range from the religious feelings of Potawatomi and Miami Indians to the formation of the Catholic press; the outbursts of anti-Catholicism in the state; the impact of the powerful University of Notre Dame at South Bend; the modern challenges fueled by liturgical, financial, and societal changes; and the national upheaval resulting from the church's responses to sexual abuse by certain clergy members. With such a plethora of topics–both interwoven and unrelated–an almost overwhelming number of people, church agencies, and local parishes inhabit each chapter. . . .
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