The Catholic Church in New York

First published in 1905 and written as an official chronology of the Diocese of New Yorkthen one of the powerhouse regions of the Catholic Church in America, as the Archdiocese of New York is todaythis two-volume work remains an important document of the Church. Useful in both the historical and cultural dimensions, this highly readable but powerfully biased account reveals the prejudices and partialities of the time as filtered through the viewpoint of one of its most influential institutions.

Volume I explores:

the first Catholics in the State of New York
the early years of the organization in the state
the first bishop and early administration
anti-Catholicism and the Knownothing Party
the growth of the parishes
politics and Catholicism
and much more.

American clergyman and author REV. JOHN TALBOT SMITH (18551923) also wrote The Training of a Priest, The Chaplain Sermons, and other religious works, as well as the novels Woman of Culture (1882) and Solitary Island (1888).