Here’s the remarkable story of a book that’s largely been forgotten today but had an enormous impact on generations of Americans.
At the end of the 1800s, the U.S. was nowhere near a Catholic nation. In the year 1900, for example, only about 10 to 12 million Catholics lived in the U.S.—some 13% of the population.
But improbably, at the top of national bestseller lists was a book of Catholic apologetics—a reasoned explanation of Catholic beliefs and doctrine. And somehow, amid a very Protestant cultural milieu, it remained there for six decades.
What book was
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