Catholic sociology in America: A comment on the fiftieth anniversary issue, ofSociological Analysis

In the decidedly anti-Catholic atmosphere of both the nation and the secular academy and spurred on by the social encyclical, Quadragesima Anno (1931), both the American Catholic Sociological Society (1938) and its journal, the American Catholic Sociological Review (1940), came into existence. At? tacking the arrogant and intransigent position of American positivistic sociologists who claimed that their work was in no way biased by values, the first president of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Ralph Gallagher, stated that: