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1-1-2011 Review of "Abt Dominikus Hagenauer (1746-1811) von St. Peter in : Tagebücher 1786–1810" Ulrich Lehner Marquette University, [email protected]

Published version. Theological Studies, Vol. 71, (2011): 228. Publisher Link. © 2011 Theological Studies, Inc. Used with permission. 228 THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

ABT DOMINIKUS HAGENAUER (1746- ~tereotypes abound involving the rela­ 1811) VON ST. PETER IN SALZBURG: tIOnship between the pre-Vatican II TAGEBOCHER 1786- 1810. Edited by American and social Adolf Hahnl, Hannelore Angermliller, institutions committed to protecting and Rudolph Angermliller. 3 vols. the moral and social order, such as Studien und Mitteilungen Erganzungs­ the police, military, labor unions and band 46. St. Ottilien: EOS, 2009. Pp. politicians. The Federal Burea~ of 1656. €98. Investigation, led by its iconic director Shortly before the French Revolution J. Edgar Hoover, made no secret of its and the subsequent coalition wars initi­ preference for hiring Catholics. While ated the end of monasticism in the Holy not Catholic himself, Hoover believed Roman Empire, Dominikus Hagenauer Catholics alone possessed the moral was elected-supported by a campaign of and intellectual fib.er necessary for Leopold Mozart- to the abbatial see of combatmg Commullism and other ills St. Peter in Salzburg (1786). During his afflicting American life. The Church responded in kind, granting Hoover tenu!e he f~ced, among other challenges, the mcreasmg threat of anticlericalism a~ulation and willingly cooperating the attacks of radical Enlighteners on th~ With the Bureau's anti-Communist Church, and the possibility that his mon­ endeavors. Prior to R.'s book this rela­ astery would be dissolved. Regarding tionship had been more pres~med than examined. these expe~ences and many more (e.g. , his fnendship With the Mozart family or Both the Church and the FBI sought Michael Haydn), he wrote a 1 400-page to stave off social chaos. Thus under­ di~ry , which has now been ' superbly neath their shared anti-Com~unism edited by the Historical Commission of R. argues, lay shared assumption~ the Gennan . about authority and traditional gender The text immediately grabs attention roles, particularly patriarchal leader­ due to the vividness of the narrative the ship. Ensuring those values would reported details, and the variety of t~pics guarantee social order, both Church covered. We learn not only about the and .Bureau s~ruck out against Com­ liturgical and intellectual culture of the mUllism and Its perceived filth and abbey, its connection to other religious infiltrations. R. investigates this shared orders, and the controversies about the ~orldview topically, covering influen­ tial . laymen and bishops alike. His iIJ.lpl~mentation of the Enlightenment Within the theology department in Salz­ meticulous research illuminates the burg, but also about the personal visits of extent to which several bishops (e.g., the abbot with his family and how much Fulton Sheen, John F. Noll, and chocolate he usually sent as a Christmas Cardinal Richard Cushing), laymen, and Catholic universities gladly en­ present to t~e ~uns of Nonnberg Abbey. Thus the dlanes become a gold mine dorsed and facilitated the Bureau's for every church historian who desires investigations. to know more about the intellectual Researching this book took R. 20 social, and cultural history of 18th-cen~ years, and his diligence paid off. No tury monasticism, giving a most intimate other book sets forth the Bureau and insight into Catholic life in central Church's shared intellectual and cul­ Europe between 1786 and 1810. tural (if not always religious) foun­ dations. The book could also serve as ULRICH L. LEHNER a source for a deeper understanding Marquette University, Milwaukee of 20th-century clerical education and biographies. However, amid his rig­ THE FBI AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH orous research. R. repeatedly assails 1935-1962. By Steve Rosswunn. Amherst ~ patnarchal anxiety as the animus that University of Massachusetts, 2009. Pp. xi + generated the Church and Bureau's 352. $39.95. fevered antimodernism and anti-Com­ munism. Thus a work of fine historical . Rosswurm addresses an important scholarship concludes on an all-too­ lacuna in American Catholic studies. familiar-and thus disappointing-note: