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Adds significantly to the growing body of knowledge on Southern and American Catholicism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction--A Glimpse at the Past
The Hierarchy
John E. Gunn, 1911-1924
Richard O. Gerow: The Natchez Years, 1924-1948
Richard O. Gerow: The Jackson Years, 1948-1966
Joseph Bernard Brunini: A Native Son
Joseph Bernard Brunini: God and Neighbor
Clergy, Religious, and Laity
Clergy and Religious 1911-1984
Laity
Outreach Evangelization
Mississippi and Southern Catholicism
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Native Priests
Appendix 2: Priests in the Diocese, 1911-1984
Appendix 3: Irish Priests
Appendix 4: Religious Orders
Appendix 5: Parishes 1911-1984
Appendix 6: Schools
Selected Bibliography
Photgraphic Essay

About the Author

MICHAEL V. NAMORATO is Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. His areas of specialization include 20th Century American history, American economic history, and American Catholic Church history. He is the author of Rexford G. Tugwell: A Biography (Praeger, 1988) and editor of The Diary of Rexford G. Tugwell: The New Deal, 1932-1936 (Greenwood, 1992). He has also edited Have We Overcome: Race Relations since Brown (1978) and The New Deal and the South (1984).

Reviews

.,."Professor Namorato has developed a cogent analysis of the Catholic Church in Mississippi that has much to offer to students of social, political, and religious history."-The Catholic Historical Review

?...Professor Namorato has developed a cogent analysis of the Catholic Church in Mississippi that has much to offer to students of social, political, and religious history.?-The Catholic Historical Review

?[T]his is assuredly a scholarly, critical study of the Catholic Church in Mississippi [that] is at the same time a work marked both by compassion and by the intention of looking beyond but not overlooking ignorance and prejudice, qualities so often associated in the popular mind with Mississippi.?-The Journal of Southern History

?This volume is a worthy contribution to what is hoped will be an expanding body of knowledge of Catholicism in America.?-Catholic Southwest

"ÝT¨his is assuredly a scholarly, critical study of the Catholic Church in Mississippi Ýthat¨ is at the same time a work marked both by compassion and by the intention of looking beyond but not overlooking ignorance and prejudice, qualities so often associated in the popular mind with Mississippi."-The Journal of Southern History

..."Professor Namorato has developed a cogent analysis of the Catholic Church in Mississippi that has much to offer to students of social, political, and religious history."-The Catholic Historical Review

"This volume is a worthy contribution to what is hoped will be an expanding body of knowledge of Catholicism in America."-Catholic Southwest

"[T]his is assuredly a scholarly, critical study of the Catholic Church in Mississippi [that] is at the same time a work marked both by compassion and by the intention of looking beyond but not overlooking ignorance and prejudice, qualities so often associated in the popular mind with Mississippi."-The Journal of Southern History