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

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.

1957 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry J. Browne

Historians are wary of surveys of neatly packaged periods of time such as the decade. However, an attempt to survey progress in the field of American Catholic history might be excused if it settled on the period of the last ten years. There are two reasons for this decision. First, it was just ten years ago that the late Thomas F. O'Connor in his presidential address to the American Catholic Historical Association spoke on trends and what, for some unexplained reason, he called ominously “portents” in the writing of American Catholic history. We have, therefore, in his remarks some mark from which to judge forward movement. The second reason for restricting an examination of this matter to the last decade is that the year 1946 marked the first formal entrance of John Tracy Ellis into the circle of historians of American Catholicism.


Author(s):  
Patrick Allitt

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.


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

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

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

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