The pre-conciliar church -- Pittsburgh Catholics and the materialist crisis -- Anti-communism and the decline of Catholic devotionalism -- Catholic separatism and the opening of the Catholic ghetto -- Social justice and reform -- Aggiornamento Americano -- The Second Vatican Council in Rome and Pittsburgh, 1962-1965 -- The post-conciliar church -- The Diocesan Pastoral Council -- Devotional Catholicism in the wake of Vatican II -- The promise of a democratic church : the laity and the 1971 Pittsburgh synod -- The post-conciliar parishes
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