A lecture that covers the rapid growth of the Catholic church and reactions from the Protestant majority.
http://www.wfu.edu:/~matthetl/perspectives/seventeen.html
An explanation of Leo XIII's apostolic letter, regarding the the doctrine of latitudinarianism.
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5230
An examination of the role that religion played in shaping New Orleans' Irish ethnicity during the mid nineteenth century.
http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/phil/faculty/payne/Projects/LaRel/AGernon/gernon01.html
An exploration of how Catholics coupled their Catholicism with an acceptance of American religious pluralism. From Christian Century.
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=867