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Author: Thomas J. Shelley
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823285419
ISBN 10: 0823285413
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 05 November 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Filled with fun facts and gossip about ecclesiastical politics in the Archdiocese of New York, Monsignor Shelley's book will have a wider appeal than readers in New York. It will likely spark the imaginations of pastors around the country. * Catholic Library World * Upper West Side Catholics is local history at its best-from the ground up. Shelley captures the parish's interactions with the neighborhood's ethnic and religious diversity along with its buoyant social life and liberal politics. This lively account embeds the story of Ascension parish and its parishioners in the growth of a neighborhood with multiples declines and rebirths. An enlightening and absorbing story. -- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Former editor of Commonweal
Upper West Side Catholics is local history at its best-from the ground up. Shelley captures the parish's interactions with the neighborhood's ethnic and religious diversity along with its buoyant social life and liberal politics. This lively account embeds the story of Ascension parish and its parishioners in the growth of a neighborhood with multiples declines and rebirths. An enlightening and absorbing story. -- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Former editor of Commonweal
Filled with fun facts and gossip about ecclesiastical politics in the Archdiocese of New York, Monsignor Shelley's book will have a wider appeal than readers in New York. It will likely spark the imaginations of pastors around the country.-- Catholic Library World Upper West Side Catholics is local history at its best--from the ground up. Shelley captures the parish's interactions with the neighborhood's ethnic and religious diversity along with its buoyant social life and liberal politics. This lively account embeds the story of Ascension parish and its parishioners in the growth of a neighborhood with multiples declines and rebirths. An enlightening and absorbing story.---Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Former editor of Commonweal
Upper West Side Catholics is local history at its best-from the ground up. Shelley captures the parish's interactions with the neighborhood's ethnic and religious diversity along with its buoyant social life and liberal politics. This lively account embeds the story of Ascension parish and its parishioners in the growth of a neighborhood with multiples declines and rebirths. An enlightening and absorbing story. -- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, Former editor of Commonweal Filled with fun facts and gossip about ecclesiastical politics in the Archdiocese of New York, Monsignor Shelley's book will have a wider appeal than readers in New York. It will likely spark the imaginations of pastors around the country. * Catholic Library World *
Author Information
Monsignor Thomas J. Shelley, a priest of the archdiocese of New York, is Emeritus Professor of Church History at Fordham University. His publications include Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York and Fordham, A History of the Jesuit University of New York: 1841–2003 (Fordham).
