Maintains that Catholics, despite the barriers of history, culture, and religion, have now made it" in American society; however, few people are yet aware of the occurrence and only a handful have tentative explanations for why it happened while the overwhelming majority of the American intelligentsia are not even remotely interested. (RJ)

Analysis of the attitudes and behavior of graduates of Catholic Colleges seven years after graduation indicated that the experience of attending a Catholic college caused no economic, educational, or intellectual handicaps for the alumni on measures of religious behavior and on measures of political and social liberalism." (Author)

This study examines the theory that, despite social, economic, historical, cultural, and perhaps religious obstacles, many more Catholics are electing academic careers. (Author)

Defines civil religion as the illumination provided by more basic religious symbols about the meaning of the civil and political society in which a person finds himself. Sees a potential for openness, movement, and growth among Catholic ethnics. (DM)

The author presented a short history of his Irish heritage and defended his family's ethnic contributions to American culture with the plea that ethnicity should be encouraged as a cultural strength rather than as a threat to American cultural cohesion. (RK)

This book reports on a replication of the 1963 National Opinion Research Center study of the effectiveness of the value-oriented education carried out in the Roman Catholic schools in the United States. It is part of a growing body of social change research being done by American sociologists. In Part I, the first five chapters, the context for…

Data from the 1957 Current Popualtion Survey of Religion and from the NORC study of June 1961 college graduates indicate that denominational homogeneity in marriage exists for at least three-quarters of the major religious denominations, including the various groups within Protestantism." (Author/SE)

A prominent Catholic educator says American academics discriminate against white ethnics, labeling them culturally inferior and socially deficient. The comments are based on research done by the Center for the Study of American Pluralism on a national sample of 18,000 cases. (LBH)

This report relies on a composite sample of 12 National Opinion Research Center surveys (with a total sample of 17,700) to trace out the basic outlines of the achievements of American denominational and ethnic groups. There are three fundamental questions addressed in this analysis: (1) whether there are inequalities of achievement among the…