Voyages of Catholic Thought Between Europe and North America, 1920-1960

In the first half of the 20th century, the reputation of American Catholics was not so good. Didn’t the novelist Flannery O’Connor write that their main concern was to “install central heating in holy places”?

This book reveals a little-known page in the intellectual history of American Catholicism, and shows another face of transatlantic relations. “It is in the order of spirit and culture that the Atlantic community assumes its most fundamental historical importance”, as Jacques Mar…