The American Catholic Almanac by Brian Burch

The American Catholic Almanac by Brian Burch

WHAT DO BUFALO BIL, JOHN F. KENEDY, VINCE LOMBARDI, DOROTHY DAY, FULTON SHEN, AND ANDY WARHOL HAVE IN COMON?

They're all Catholics who have shaped America. In this page-a-day history, 365 inspiring stories celebrate the historic contributions of American men and women shaped by their Catholic faith. From famous figures to lesser-known saints and sinners, The American Catholic Almanac tells the fascinating, funny, uplifting, and unlikely tales of Catholics' influence on American history, culture, and politics. Spanning the scope of the Revolutionary War to Notre Dame football, this unique collection of stories highlights the transformative role of the Catholic Church in American public life over the last 400 years.

Did you know.
- The first immigrant to arrive in America via Ellis Island was a 15-year-old Irish Catholic girl?
- Al Capone's tombstone reads MY JESUS MERCY?
- Andrew Jackson credited America's victory in the Battle of New Orleans to the prayers of the Virgin Mary and the Ursuline Sisters?
- Five Franciscans died in sixteenth-century Georgia defending the Church's teachings on marriage?
- Jack Kerouac died wanting to be known as a Catholic and not only as a beat poet?
- Catholic missionaries lived in Virginia 36 years before the English settled Jamestown?

BRIAN BURCH is the president of CatholicVote.org, a nonprofit political advocacy group based in Chicago.

EMILY STIMPSON is a Catholic writer based in Steubenville, Ohio, and the
author of The Catholic Girl's Survival Guide for the Single Years and These Beautiful Bones: An Everyday Theology of the Body.

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ISBN 13	9780553418743
ISBN 10	0553418742
Title	The American Catholic Almanac
Author	Brian Burch
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2017-03-21
Number of pages	416
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