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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John T. McGreevy. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W. W. Norton. 2003. Pp. 431. $26.95.
This book by John T. McGreevy explores and amends the conventional view of the relationship between Catholics and democratic principles as they have evolved since 1776. In a nation where "official" histories were, until recently, the purview of white Protestant authors, Catholicism has appeared as the despised enemy of liberty. By providing historical background for this contest, and by focusing on the interplay between Catholics and their critics since the emergence of liberalism in the nineteenth century, the book complements European histories of the Catholic Church's troubled relation to the state since 1789, and focuses on the American scene up to the current crisis involving priests accused of sexual abuse of minors.	1
McGreevy's title echoes (and repudiates) the anti-Catholic polemics of Paul Blanshard, who embodied "mainstream" American anti-Catholicism during the 1940s and 1950s. Ten chapters explore selected public issues central to American "identity," ranging from abortion to education funding to slavery. McGreevy's account traces the path of non-Catholic opinion about the inability of Catholicism to embrace Enlightenment ideals of freedom and democracy as well as Catholic responses to that criticism, and pinpoints the efforts of the handful of Catholic liberals who shared the view of continental thinkers that their faith and political principles were not intrinsically antidemocratic.	. . .

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