American CatholicBy: Charles Morris "A cracking good story with a wonderful cast of rogues, ruffians and some remarkably holy and sensible people." Los Angeles Times Book Review Before the potato famine ravaged Ireland in the 1840s, the Roman Catholic Church was barely a thread in the American cloth. Twenty years later, New York City was home to more Irish Catholics than Dublin. Today, the United States boasts some sixty million members of the Catholic Church, which