Her treatment of the great moral and social problems of our own time, by master minds. The foundation, history and progress of Her great educational institutions in the United States. Her great religious orders of men and women for spreading the Gospel and teaching secular and religious knowledge. The history of the organization, development and aims of the great Catholic fraternal societies of the United States and their national federation with many other important subjects.

The teachings of the Church made manifest to the modern mind, from the pens of the Paulist Fathers and other eminent authorities, as indicated throughout the work.

With an introductory chapter by His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons.