Catholic Influence on American Colonial Policies, 1898-1904

Reuter, Frank Theodore, Catholic Influence on American Colonial Policies, 1898-1904, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967.

Reviewed in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly © 1968.

Extract from the Introduction:

This study endeavors to examine some of the Church-state problems in the new American empire, to observe the Catholic reaction in the United States to these problems, and then to determine what influence, if any, the Catholic Church in the united States had on the formulation or direction of American colonial policies. It is not intended as a discussion of the constitutional questions involved in the separation of church and state in the dependencies nor an account of the laborious litigation inherent to that separation. But rather it is a search for the existence of a particular pressure group within the United States and an attempt at measuring the effectiveness of that pressure group as it endeavored to preserve or extend its own basic interests.