In Rome We Trust: The Rise of Catholics in American Political Life
Manlio Graziano -Stanford University Press, 21 mar 2017
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the heels of an extremely lively U.S. presidential election campaign,
this book examines the unusually serene relationship between the chief
global superpower and the world's most ancient and renowned institution.
The "Catholicization" of the United States is a recent phenomenon: some
believe it began during the Reagan administration; others feel it
emerged under George W. Bush's presidency. What is certain is that the
Catholic presence in the American political ruling class was
particularly prominent in the Obama administration: over one-third of
cabinet members, the Vice President, the White House Chief of Staff, the
heads of Homeland Security and the CIA, the director and deputy
director of the FBI, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other
top military officers were all Roman Catholic. Challenging received
wisdom that the American Catholic Church is in crisis and that the
political religion in the United States is Evangelicalism, Manlio
Graziano provides an engaging account of the tendency of Catholics to
play an increasingly significant role in American politics, as well as
the rising role of American prelates in the Roman Catholic Church.
