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| | Sarmatian Review XVI.2: John J. Bukowczyk (review) |
 | | In this second volume (of this edition's four volumes), Kruszka proceeds to recount a remarkably detailed, if spotty, history of most of the dozens of Polish parishes established in Illinois by the first decade of this century. |
 | | In doing so, Kruszka picks through the often tacky details of a conflict that, writ large, implicated many of the grand ecclesiastical issues of the day in America, e.g., immigrant nationalism and lay trusteeism, independentism and schism, and the composition, organization, and ideological orientation of the Catholic Church in America. |
 | | The volume, for example, interestingly suggests that the lenient treatment of Rev. Dominik Kolasiski, the flamboyant and insubordinate Polish pastor, by diocesan officials in Detroit was perceived at the time as giving encouragement to Chicago independentism (110). |
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