[In An Ugly Little Secret] Greeley has drawn upon decades of work in the sociological study of ethnics and Catholicism to present his interpretation of why anti-Catholic nativism continues to exist in America. He offers documented evidence of discrimination against Catholics, especially among the intellectual elite within the U.S., and concludes that anti-Catholic bigotry continues in subtle forms because of inattention to its possible existence, ignorance of its dynamics, and residual bias remaining from the nativism of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The chapter on Catholics and Jews is especially significant for future Catholic-Jewish dialogues. Greeley, a Roman Catholic priest, notes Catholic duplicity in the continuation of anti-Catholicism and concludes that it is due to Catholic middle-class toleration of discrimination for the sake of social acceptance and economic success. This brief volume is well written in a conversational style with great clarity. It provides a good...