The look of Catholics: portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War

Introduction: Priests, gangsters, and cowboys : Catholic outsiders, American insiders, and the contest over national community

The Catholic front : religion, reform, and culture in Depression-era America

A new deal in movie religion : the public sphere of Catholic films

Cool Catholics in the hot American melting pot : Going my way, Bing Crosby, and Hollywood's new faith in consensus

Pro-Life Catholics : the representation of Catholicism in Life magazine, 1936-1960

Performing Catholicism in an age of consensus : Fulton J. Sheen, television, and postwar America

From public dilemmas to private virtues : Leo McCarey, Hollywood comedy, and the household of Americanization

John Ford's Irish American century : ethnicity, Catholicism, and the borderlands of national identity

Epilogue: Catholics and the American community at the turn of a new century.