Harder Than War: Catholic Peacemaking in Twentieth-Century America

by Patricia F McNeal and Professor Patricia F. McNeal

Patricia McNeal's comprehensive study of American Catholic peacemaking in the twentieth century documents the growth of pacifism and nonviolence within the American Catholic community, and assesses its impact on the church and the nation. McNeal begins with the first official Catholic peace organization in the United States, the Catholic Association for International Peace, founded in 1927. An elitist lay organization supported by the church hierarchy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813517397
• ISBN13: 9780813517391
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 9.8"