1. Enlightenment and episcopal leadership (1780-1830) -- 2. Romanticism: Orestes Brownson and the Young Isaac Hecker (1830-1850) -- 3. Isaac Hecker, an American Saint Paul (1850-1880) -- 4. The Catholic University and Americanism (1880-1900) -- 5. Modernist scholarship and progressive social thought (1900-1920) -- 6. The path to pluralism (1920-1985).