William J. Kerby, John A. Ryan, and the Awakening of the Twentieth-Century American Catholic Social Conscience, 1899-1919 (Progressivism)

William J. Kerby and John A. Ryan were two of the best known progressive activists of the early twentieth-century American Catholic Church. Whether demanding political concern on the part of Catholics, urging reform of the Church's charities, or bringing attention to the issue of socialism, their efforts to effect change were untiring. They helped create in the American Church a twentieth-century American Catholic social conscience. Such a political consciousness accepted a larger degree of governmental responsibility for the economic and social welfare of the American people, and saw the problems created by industrialization as national concerns rather than questions of individual morality. Although their thinking did not predominate among all American Catholics by 1919, they had helped create institutions and climates of opinion favorable to the acceptance of their ideas.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Lavey, Patrick Bernard

• History, United States

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(UMI)AAI8623348

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70496