Introduction : the cultural work of Catholic literature
U.S. Catholic literary aesthetics
Modernisms literary and theological
Declining oppositions
The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century
Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own"
Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice"
Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern
Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness
Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.