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In Author's Response, Mark S. Massa responds to Andrew M. Greeley's (2000) review of the former's Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, and the Notre Dame Football Team (1999). Greeley's notation that Massa claims that the mainstream Catholic community functions like an ethnic group, with an ultimate goal of cultural assimilation, is confirmed. It is held, however, that the Catholic fulfillment of this goal has been uncomfortable, because for many religions, including Catholicism, a sense of not belonging to the common fold is almost necessary. The structure of Massa's book is described, & it is held to function as nine separate stories, strung together by a single narrative voice. Greeley & Massa disagree about how much US Catholics have changed since 1950, but agree about Catholicism functioning as an "ethnic group of ethnic groups." In Reviewer's Response, Greeley states that he & Massa do not agree on irony, claiming that Massa's model cannot be proved because it cannot be disproved, while his does not have that problem. D. Weibel

The Tweed Family Papers consists primarily of correspondence between Mrs. Richard Tweed and her children, relatives, and friends. Diaries, essays and poetry written by family members, newspaper clippings (photocopies), and financial and legal material are also included, as are a handful of photographs. All related primarily to the life of Mrs. Richard Tweed and her descendants. ; Mrs. Richard Tweed, upon whom the majority of the materials focus, was the sister-in-law of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, who controlled the Democratic political machine at New York City's Tammany Hall during the mid-19th century. He and his associates misappropriated public funds on a large scale, leading to his arrest and imprisonment in 1871. ; The Tweed Family Papers are organized by the following categories: Correspondence, Newspapers, Literary Production, Photographs, Financial Material, Printed Material, Scrapbook Material, Legal Material, and Artifacts. ; Tweed Family Papers, 1836-1932 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas ; Box 1, File 14