Abstract
Interaction between Catholicism and public life in the United States is nothing new. Nor is this local church's concern for the poor. Can that concern, evident from the historical record and from public-opinion research, become a public advocacy of racial, social, and environmental justice in the U.S.? Normative and empirical considerations suggest that it is possible, but not inevitable, in view of indirect influence from the Puritan heritage upon American Catholic self-understanding.
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