| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Acts of Faith: The Catholic Church in Texas, 1900–1950. By James Talmadge Moore. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. viii, 263 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-139-2.)

Clearly written and carefully researched, this work is a sequel to James Talmadge Moore's previous study, Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836–1900 (1992). A retired history teacher who earned a doctorate at Texas A&M University, Moore is a Catholic priest, and thus he writes as a sympathetic insider. An adequate index and numerous photographs interspersed throughout the text add to the volume's appeal. There is no bibliography, but the endnotes disclose an overwhelming dependency on a single source, the Southern Messenger. Until the early 1940s, when the Archdiocese of San Antonio began publication of the Alamo Register, the Southern Messenger, though privately owned and published by the L. William Menger family of San Antonio and written primarily by laity, was the only Catholic paper that circulated throughout Texas with official church sanction. It not only informed the faithful on matters of local, national, and international importance but also reflected the views of prominent church leaders.

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