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Language: en
Pages: 386
Pages: 386
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: UPNE
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Language: en
Pages: 199
Pages: 199
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-03 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Strange as it may seem today, until 1780 it was illegal to practice Catholicism in Massachusetts, and even then scarcely tolerated, the first public Mass not be
Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-14 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
In 2004 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston announced plans to close more than eighty churches. Distraught parishioners occupied several of these buildings
Language: en
Pages: 430
Pages: 430
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-10 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Kane explores the role of religious identity in Boston in the years 1900-1920, arguing that Catholicism was a central integrating force among different class an
Language: en
Pages: 293
Pages: 293
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Encounter Books
"The Faithful Departed" traces the rise and fall of the Catholic Church in Boston, showing how the Massachusetts experience set a pattern that echoed throughout