For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco.(Book review)

FOR BOTH CROSS AND FLAG: CATHOLIC ACTION, ANTI-CATHOLICISM, AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLITICS IN WORLD WAR II SAN FRANCISCO By William Issel (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009, 216 pp., $40.00 cloth)

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RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS and institutions are among the forces that contribute to the life and viability of a modern metropolis. Churches and religious people create places of worship, educational and social welfare institutions, and "intentional" communities of adherents who exercise their own distinctive influences on city life. William Issel's fine book highlights a dimension of Catholic influence and agency on San Francisco exercised by the …