Introduction : the American Catholic century / John T. McGreevy -- U.S. Catholics between memory and modernity : how Catholics are Americans / Robert A. Orsi -- Re-viewing the twentieth century through an American Catholic lens / Lizabeth Cohen -- The Catholic encounter with the 1960s / Thomas J. Sugrue -- Crossing the Catholic divide : gender, sexuality, and historiography / R. Marie Griffith -- The new turn in Chicano/Mexicano history : integrating religious belief and practice / David Gutierrez -- The Catholic moment in American social thought / Wilfred M. McClay -- Conclusion : the forgotten Americans? / R. Scott Appleby.