America's Church

Gregory W. Tucker

America's Church is a story of faith, hope, and love. It's the story of a challenge accepted by one generation of American Catholics and then passed down to, and accepted by, the next and the next, and the next.

Gregory Tucker shows how the most significant single project ever undertaken by the Church in the United States traces its roots to its modest beginnings as a student chapel on the campus of The Catholic University of America a century ago. Tucker proves that this icon of the Catholic Church in the United States -- this tribute to, and reminder of, the many cultures within it -- is a national treasure. His recounting of how it was "mined, mounted, and polished" is a great American tale.