| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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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. Illustrations, table, appendixes, notes, index. $39.94.)

James Talmadge Moore, retired professor of history at North Harris College in Houston, has written an informative chronicle of Texas Catholicism from 1900 to1950. It is a sequel to his earlier study of the nineteenth century. If there is a theme to the present volume, it is how the Catholic Church coped with crisis. The institution faced a devastating hurricane in 1900 that nearly wiped it from the map of Galveston. After 1910, it struggled to accommodate a tidal wave of refugee Catholics from revolutionary Mexico. For example, the little town of Crystal City mushroomed from 900 to 6,600 inhabitants in the space of nine years. Recovery from the hurricane was easy compared to the challenge of caring for the thousands of immigrants that poured into Texas. Their advent required the inauguration of bilingual education in parochial schools, the building of new parishes, and the recruitment of Spanish-speaking personnel—a task made somewhat easier by the presence of numerous nuns and priests among the émigré population.

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