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Abelard, 91 abstraction, 24, 53 Acolyte, 139 Acta Apostolicae Sedes, 109 Acton, Lord, 109 Acts of the Apostles, 28, 90, 122, 146 Addams, Jane, 125 aestheticism as movement, 34 After the GenteelTradition (Trilling), 68 Ahlstrom, Sydney, 197n6 Albany Evangelist, 140 Alexander, Calvert, 37 Alexander VI, Pope, 92 America, 7, 13, 20–21, 23, 25, 41, 44–45, 56, 66, 76–77, 110, 115–16, 130–31, 145, 160–62, 164, 174, 184 American Catholic Arts and Fictions (Giles), 66 American Catholic Crossroads (Ong), 156–57 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 142 American Ecclesiastical Review, 106 Americanism, 50–51, 55, 83 American Journal of Sociology, 64–65 American literary culture, 21–22, 24, 67–68, 83, 175–78, 186, 188 American Renaissance, 22 anti-Catholicism, 4, 198n14 anticommunism, 11, 12, 67, 166, 185, 217n26 anti-Semitism, 185 Appleby, Scott, 50, 54 Appleton’s Cyclopedia, 9, 198n14 Aquinas, Thomas, 28–36, 52, 106, 125, 186, 189 Aristotle, 28, 29, 177 Arius, 91, 122 Armory Show (1913), 58, 203n53 Arnold, Matthew, 8, 9, 29 art, 75, 83, 147, 149, 152, 155–56, 168–69, 177–78, 185 art for art’s sake, 34–35, 167 Arvin, Newton, 69 “Ash Wednesday” (Eliot), 74, 159 assimilation, 4, 8, 148, 150, 151, 163–65, 175, 182–83, 185 Astaire, Fred, 179 Atlantic Monthly, 43–44, 153–54 Auden, W. H., 186–87, 190 Augustine, St., 162 autonomy of art, 168–69, 177–78 Ave Maria, 107, 164–65 Bacon, Francis, 108 Baltimore Catechism, 10 Balzac, Honoré de, 108 Barlow, Rev. John, 123–24 Barrett, E. Boyd, 56, 115–16 beauty, 29, 31, 34–36 Bednar, Gerald J., 168 Bellarmine, Robert, 120 Belloc, Hilaire, 15, 40, 64 Bells of St. Mary’s,The, 140 Benedictine Review, 177 Benedict XIV, Pope, 95, 96–97, 99, 100, 103 Bennett, Arnold, 39–40 Benson, Robert Hugh, 158 Bentham, Jeremy, 108 Berengarius of Tours, 91 Bergman, Ingrid, 140, 150 Bernanos, Georges, 15 Best Sellers, 162 BestYears of Our Lives, 167–68 Betten, Francis, 105, 110 Bible, 26–28, 49, 90, 122, 107, 146 Black Boy (Wright), 33 blank verse, 78 Blanshard, Paul, 166 Blockade, 131 Bloy, Leon, 15 Bok, Edward, 12 Bonn, John L., 27, 28, 32, 105, 126 Book-of-the-Month Club, 13, 46 Books onTrial, 44, 217n14 Boston American, 123 Index 221 222 INDEX Boston College, 27, 32, 126 boycott, 130, 142, 144, 145, 151 Breen, Joseph, 131, 134, 141 Bregy, Katherine, 46, 201–2n27 Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 195–96 Brighton Rock (Greene), 160 Brown, Stephen J. M., 16, 23, 71, 80 Browne, P. W., 89 Brownson, Orestes, 66 Bruno, Giordano, 95 Bunker, John, 80 Burke, Kenneth, 73 Burke, Redmond A., 105, 209n12, 210n16, 212n20, 213n31 Burton, Katherine, 43 canon law, 3, 85, 86, 88, 100–107, 109, 113, 117, 145–46 Cantos (Pound), 58 capitalism, 52, 56, 58, 72, 124, 137, 151, 180–82 Capra, Frank, 150 Cather, Willa, 68–69 Catholic Action, 14–16, 23, 24, 36, 82, 139, 143, 164, 175 Catholic Action, 15 Catholic bibliography, 16 Catholic Book Club, 46 Catholic Builders of the Nation, 17–18 Catholic Church, 4, 6, 16–17, 25, 45, 47–48, 50–52, 53–55, 71, 81, 77, 83, 88, 92, 94, 98, 100–107, 109, 113, 117, 125–29, 145–52, 156–57, 186, 187–88, 190, 197nn5–6 Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 174 Catholic Digest, 54, 107, 150 Catholic Directory, 113, 212n20 Catholic Encyclopedia, 6, 8–10, 20, 91, 93, 95, 105–06, 174, 198n14, 200n1 Catholic Historical Review, 16–17, 103 Catholic Library Association, 16, 124 Catholic LibraryWorld, 15, 103, 121 Catholic literary aesthetics: and accountability , 24, 81–84, 86; activist role of, in service of nonaesthetic ends, 23–25, 73–74; Alexander’s history of, 37; beauty as literary criterion, 29, 31, 34–36; contours of, 26–36; and Dante’s Divine Comedy, 28, 71, 80, 168; definition and evaluation of works of art within, 25–36; Gardiner on, 145–46, 161–62; goodness as moral criterion in, 29–32; and iconoclasm/orthodoxy, 62, 69–74, 167–70; and individual/community, 22, 23, 57, 61, 62, 65–70, 181–84; and innovation/repetition, 62, 74–77, 184–88; during interwar period, 21–26; liturgy’s impact on, 77, 186, 187; and mission of literature, 23, 27, 71–72, 126; and openness/closure, 62, 78–81, 188–91; and realism during interwar period, 21, 38–46, 48; and rise of liberalism, 36–37; scriptural framework of, 26–28; Thomistic framework of...

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