Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Spanish America -- II New France -- III Louisiana -- IV English America: Maryland -- V English America: Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York -- VI Revolution -- VII Organization of a Church -- VIII The Failure of Carroll's Plans -- IX The Era of the Common Man -- X Immigrants Become the Church -- XI Westward the Course of Empire -- XII Abolition and Civil War -- XIII Reconstruction -- XIV The Gilded Age -- XV Growing Pains in the Catholic Community -- XVI The End of the Beginning -- XVII So Certain and Set Apart -- XVIII Catholicism Unbound: The Church of the Twenties -- XIX We Shall Not Wither Up and Blow Away -- XX Cross and Flag -- XXI A Revolutionary Moment -- Notes -- Index -- Footnotes.