All good books are Catholic books: print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America

Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the 20th century was largely antagonistic.

In and through the period from World War I to Vatican II, the Church engaged with, react to, and even accommodated various aspects of modernity.

In this book, Cadegan shows how the Church's official position on literary culture developed over this crucial period.