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- ↑ Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, georgetown.edu; accessed April 17, 2014.
- ↑ Keeping the Faith: American Catholicism, Past and Present. University of Notre Dame Press (1st edition, June 1987); ISBN 026801227X, ISBN 978-0268012274
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- ↑ Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, faithstreet.com; accessed April 17, 2014.
- ↑ Stevens-Arroyo, Anthony (December 8, 2009). "Catholic America: Cheating the gospel and the Church". OnFaith. Archived from the original on May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ "Why Isabella Qualifies for Sainthood", nytimes.com, April 27, 1991.
- ↑ Symposium keynote speaker Archived April 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , elvisitante.biz (in Spanish)