Ethnicity, immigration and American catholic history

1978 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Gleason ◽  
David Salvaterra
Keyword(s):  
American Catholic History ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Catholic

Ambiguous Welcome: The Protestant Response to American Catholics

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-42
Author(s):  
Patrick Allitt
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Irish Catholics ◽  
American Catholic History ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Catholic

This chapter examines aspects of American Catholic history that lay outside the commonly told story of parishes and immigrants by surveying the efforts of American Protestants—from the colonial era to the present—to properly map that Catholic place in the life of their nation and their own religious sensibilities. It shows how the ambivalent greeting initially extended to Catholic immigrants by U.S. Protestants was shelved for outright hostility during the nativist era prior to the Civil War, when the mass emigration of impoverished, famine-stricken Irish Catholics greatly aggravated preexisting fears of “popish superstition.” At the same time a number of Protestants—often from elite backgrounds—found themselves powerfully drawn to Catholic art and ritual, and more than a few took the plunge into religious conversion.

The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History.

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 1568
Author(s):  
James J. Divita ◽  
Michael Glazier ◽  
Thomas J. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
American Catholic History ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Catholic

scholarly journals The Great Crisis in American Catholic History, 1895-1900

1958 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Henry J. Browne ◽  
Thomas T. McAvoy
Keyword(s):  
American Catholic History ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Catholic

Apologia for an American Catholicism: The Petition and Report of the National Catholic Welfare Council to Pius XI, April 25, 1922

1974 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McKeown
Keyword(s):  
American Catholicism ◽  
American Catholic History ◽  
Catholic History ◽  
American Catholic

The article that follows is a discussion of a document of some importance in American Catholic history, one that has not yet received consideration by historians. The Petition and Report of the National Catholic Welfare Council to Pius XI of April 25, 1922, is a protest by American bishops against a decree of suppression issued by the Consistorial Congregation of the Vatican, the effect of which would have been to destroy the newly organized Welfare Council.

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