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Defending Roman Loyalties and Republican Values: The 1848 Italian Revolution in American Catholic Apologetics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Sandra Yocum Mize
Sandra Yocum Mize
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Ms. Mize is assistant professor of religious studies atSt. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Pius IX's categorical rejection of an Italian republic from 1848 to his death in 1878 created a daunting task for American Catholic apologists, who wanted to defend their besieged leader without fueling anti-Catholic nationalism.1 The responses, even from those who had oniy minimally defended the papacy's temporal power prior to 1848, exceeded predictable expressions of sympathy. Pius IX's long suffering became the prism through which a beleaguered American Catholic community viewed the whole spectrum of its own experiences of hope and frustration in securing influence in an often hostile society.

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Church History , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , December 1991 , pp. 480 - 492
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1991

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