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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticKamphoefner, Walter D.
Title, AnalyticLiberal catholicism and its limits: The social and political outlook of the Louisville Katholischer Glaubensbote, 1866-86
Journal TitleYearbook of German-American Studies
Date of Publication1996
Volume ID31
Location in Work13-24
AbstractThe Catholic Church's outlook on the labor question in the nineteenth century was highly ambivalent.On the one hand, the church was largely comprised of poor immigrant workers, but on the other hand, the hierarchy strongly believed in civil order and abhorred the violence which often ensued in labor conflicts. A focused study of one German Catholic newspaper, the St. Louis Amerika, was undertaken and compared to the Katholischer Glaubensbote. Particular attention is focused on issues that placed Catholicism in conflict with other principles such as democracy and republicanism, egalitarianism, racial and ethnic pluralism, and not least a German national pride, that were present or prevalent in other elements of German-American society.
Call NumberMKI periodicals
MKI TermsCatholic Church/ 19th century/ Labor and laboring classes/ Attitudes/ Periodicals