From frontier to the present: New history traces US church and its people

From frontier to the present: New history traces US church and its people 

It is interesting to consider the relationship between the Council of Trent and the American colonial period. Doing so is a major contribution to American history. Trent is seen as anti-Protestant. Seeing it as anti-enlightenment adds legitimacy to civil opposition to Catholicism in America. Catholics in 19th Century American pews likely did not see it that way. They were too busy trying to eat. In Iowa during that period, a mixed marriage was considered a German Catholic marrying an Irish Catholic. Only the bishops cared about such things, as they were considered a mission Church. 

I have not read the book nor seen the table of contents. It will be interesting to how the Americanist heresy is dealt with, including its anti-Enlightenment bias. Trent and Vatican II can be seen as bookends in the war on the Enlightenment. At Vatican II, the Enlightenment won. If it had not, I wonder how (or if) the union between White Evangelicals and Catholic Trads over abortion would have occurred. Regardless, my book on the Papal Anachronists may need a prequel to address the period between Trent and Garibaldi.