The History of Catholic America

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this program sucks
Jeff Noltee

buffalo, NY usa - Monday, December 16, 2002 at 15:17:25 (EST)

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The discovery of America -I'm talking abut the koninent and not about the country!- is, in the Wester philosophical tradition, the problem of the Other. In deed, Colombus is the first European to face this problem of Other. The Other/subject or the Other/object. Otherness is the paradoxe of Catholics who first face the New World. The Other was face with violence because he/she was diferent. More than five hundred years after Columbus arrival in America we ask this: How are we going to react if one day we will discover,again, the Other in one place of the Univers?
Héctor Camargo
Marthin Luther University
Halle, Guateala - Wednesday, December 11, 2002 at 11:58:01 (EST)

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indpls, indiana usa - Sunday, December 08, 2002 at 19:42:40 (EST)

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I find it interesting that the Congregationalists (Puritains) came to the Americas seeking religious freedom from persecution but denied it to anyone else when they finally got here.
Aimee Maddeford

St. Mary's, Ks USA - Friday, December 06, 2002 at 19:14:23 (EST)

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The Peritains controlled the everyday lives of the New English Colonies.
Aminah
Turner Middle School
St.Louis, MO USA - Monday, December 02, 2002 at 17:59:56 (EST)

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I was wondering to all you lads and girlie girlies if you had any information on Juan Ponce de Leon because me and my most fabulous partner need your help before 11/18 or tomorrow because that is when our project is due
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London, ---- England - Sunday, November 17, 2002 at 13:32:52 (EST)

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Would anyone be able to confirm that George Washington was indeed converted to Catholicism during his presidency? Please refer me to source readings for my children. Many thanks!
Jeanne Marie Denson
homeschooling mom
NYC, NY USA - Thursday, November 14, 2002 at 12:42:14 (EST)

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I would just like to comment on the senserity of this article website and on its relavance to our contemprary society filled with change. I am an identified Australian teenager whos opinion on current Catholicism is strong and forthcoming. Thank you for this opportunity.
Olivia McGregor

Melbourne, Viltoria Austalia - Wednesday, November 13, 2002 at 19:39:12 (EST)

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i don't under stand any of what this site talks about it has nothing to do with what i was looking for all it does is tell a story and nothing more it should have a little more to do with the english colonies and how they were built and religious belifes with the english settlers i don't mean to be rude but it should have more education then just a story
cindy
the mary part
boston, ma usa - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 17:36:01 (EDT)

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Looking for some information about the book "La controversia de Valladolid 1492-1550. Descubrimiento, modernidad y guerra" wrote by Héctor Camargo (2002), I get disappointed, because I couldn’t get something. I just read the book and there’s a lot of question that, I think, we need to discuss in order to comprehend the nature of the conquest of America. The book sustains the thesis that the modernity, as an historical project, begins with the discovery of a new continent, in this case, the territory known today as "America" (should I say “Latin America” Mr. Camargo?). Under a correct use of historical resources and a rigorous knowledge of the philosophical environment of the era, Carmargo argues that the Christianity as a project, the war as an object (of domination) and even the philosophy of the classics, where factors used by a supreme and extraordinary court (installed in response to the Spanish kingdom) to define the future of the american man. The court was composed by notorious "men of faith" and intellectuals of that time (Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda, Domingo de Soto, Melchor Cano, Bernardino de Arévalo, Gregorio López and, of course, Bartolomé de Las Casas y Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, the most important figures in the incident). That kind of analysis, I mean, the re-interpretation of the conquest and the modernity as a project, gives us the opportunity to re-discover the nature and consequences, in terms of historical projections, of the Spanish conquest, specially for Latin-Americans. We are (as part of that “project” and citizens of that “new continent”) carrying on the weight of centuries of slavery, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination. Certainly, that ague was formulated many years ago in the field of social sciences (Pérez Brignoli; Martínez Peláez), but I think that the valuable factor in the Camargo´s work is the reference to the controversy as a begin of modernity, questioning the classic thesis based in the supposition of the René Decart thoughts as the beginning of modern era. Without a doubt, Camargo tries to demonstrate that a such important event in the history of humanity could be “re-thinked”, if you guys allow me to use this final word on that sense. Camargo is trying to “deconstruct”, in derridian terms, a reality that seems to be static. C´ya
Jorge Aragón
DIGI/USAC
Guatemala, - Friday, October 18, 2002 at 13:25:44 (EDT)

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what is the racial background % of the settlers that first settled here
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i was just wondering if you could tell me which two american colonties granted religious toleration before the American Revolution. thanks!
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wellington, fl us - Wednesday, August 21, 2002 at 16:40:20 (EDT)

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This is a very neat source of information.It help me a lot to donig my social studies project.But its short of hard to un derstan. keep up the good job.
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More imformaton About World War I and World War II
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PLEASE TELLME THE AMOUT OF ASSOCIATION BETWEN NATIVE AMERICAN AND SETLERS IN CHURCH I NEED THE PERCENT NOW!
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I need alot of information about Maryland because i am doing a project about maryland.
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I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON THE IRISH CATHOLIC COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION WHICH OPERATED OUT OF THE DIOCESE OF PEORIA (ILLINOIS) IN THE LATE 1800S. IT SENT CATHOLICS TO NEBRASKA. MY GRANDPARENTS WERE AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO MIGRATED TO GREELEY COUNTY NEBRASKA IN 1885 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ASSN. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT? DID ANY OF YOUR RELATIVES MAKE THE JOURNEY? AM INTERESTED IN HEARING THEIR STORIES, EXPERIENCES FOR A BOOK PROJECT I AM WORKING ON. THANK YOU! KATIE KELLY
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i need some info. on maryland like how was the colony founded?,name any early americans from this colony describe them and any significance they had in our country's history?, what was life like in this colony?, list the major crops grown there?, describe any hazards of living there?, list ways colonists earned a living there?, name important cities and thier significanse and a lot more please thanks
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Rock Ridge Elementary School
Milan, IL USA - Wednesday, March 20, 2002 at 14:52:57 (EST)

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I'm doing research for History on the Enslavement of Native Americans and still I am able to not find much. Could you help me please? Oh and this article was a little helpful.
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The reading material was very good and it made me understand a lot of thing, Marguerite Fannin
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Ridgway, Pa. USA - Sunday, March 03, 2002 at 15:38:12 (EST)

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The Controversia between Las Casas and Sepulveda is very importanat moment in the history of the west. Because it is the moment when the West will face a paradoxe: to put in question a very all conceptions about the world, nature and human been. Las Casas and his position agais the Just war represent the start of a new era. With 1492 and with Las Casas the Modern times arrive in the history of the west socity. The Controversia is the first time (and probably the last one!) that an impire will doubt about its own ways of expantion of its pawer. Las Casas is the voice of those ones who do not have one to exprese their pain. Las Casas is, by the way, the real fonder of the Humain rigths.
Hector CAMARGO

halle/S.Germany, Guatemala - Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 05:21:59 (EST)

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Do you have any information on how the English organized their colonies. (for example: the spanish did theirs in a grid like pattern- church or government building surrounded by rest of town) I need the information quick.
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I am looking for the records of St. Joseph's Home for the Friendless, my grandmother and her siblings were staying there at one time. Please email me at cottontailaward@yahoo.com with any way for me to find the records. Thanks.
Juli Freda

- Monday, December 03, 2001 at 11:09:23 (EST)

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“We The People”, and not “We The Judges” in the Constitution. The American people will be the jurors about the Saddams, Adolfs, Bin Laden, liars, thieves, terrorists, traitors. America is a multi-race and built up by multi- race, not just the black race. Tax money cannot be used to fund for the criminal conducts against innocent people. The criminals (Board of Governors, Trustees, Presidents and Faculty members) at Wayne State University (WSU)and University of Michigan (UM) are running for reelection. The Detroit Medical Center (DMC), including Karmanos Cancer Institute and Cleveland Clinic Foundation bear full responsibilities for the criminals. Hundreds of millions per year and billions over the year cannot be used to support the criminals. Taking billions of dollars and knowingly breaking the laws even though the criminals claim that they obey the law is perjury, America. The criminals are: UM (David A. Brandon, Laurence B. Deitch (up for reelection), Daniel D. Horning, Olivia P. Maynard, Rebecca McGowan (up for reelection), Andrea Fischer Newman, S. Martin Taylor, Katherine E. White, with Lee C. Bollinger as President. WSU are: (Leon H. Atchison, Diane Dunaskiss, Elizabeth Hardy, Murray E. Jackson, John F. Kelly, Denise J. Lewis (up for reelection), Anetta Miller, Edgar A. Scribner (up for relection). Most of them work as lawyers and executives at Northwest Airline and Domino’s Pizza. Public elected and appointed officials owe a fiduciary duty to the American people to prosecute the criminals to the maximum extent of the laws by cutting off all the fundings to the criminals, all the state medical boards must be made aware of the fraud by the criminals and prosecuted by the state attorney generals’ office and reputation destroyed by the American people by publishing the truths about the criminals. Honest, decent American people will decide what taking care means, rather than Waller or Rillema or Hashimoto at WSU who used the black race as an excuse for the Fail grades and just lip service as taking care. Your newspapers owe a fiduciary duty to the American people to let them know the truths and ask them to boycott and destroy the criminals like dirty, filfthy commies by imposing the death penalties on the criminals. These are the truths about the ugly WSU and UM, there is nothing to hide, America : 1.Ex-president of WSU and currently President of Temple University David Adamany was convicted of invasion of privacy, almost a rape in Rauch vs WSU along with counsels Dan Bernard and Louis Lessem. 2.Ex-Dean of medicine Robert Sokol was convicted of sexual harassment and fired first by the DMC and 2 weeks later was forced to resign by President Irwin Reid at WSU. Channel 7, investigative reporter Shelley Smith, had a special report with the Adolf-face of Robert Sokol and David Cotton, and a title: your doctors, entrusted with public trust, convicted of sexual harassment, yet are doing better than ever. Provost Marilyn Williamson with a behavior like a whore, publicly supported the criminals even after being found guilty, deserve the death penalty. In Hutzel employees vs. DMC and WSU, patients are running away from faculty and WSU grads for their conducts even though Waller the Saddam, Rillema the Adolf found them fit. Now it is time for the American people to know the truths and be the jurors rather than victims of the criminals. 3. The criminals granted degrees with massive Fail grades, fraud, deceit, errors in granting degrees. Some medical graduates received only 25 questions correct on the Surgery exams, Black Medical Society sold copies of the exams for $300, and that was called impeccable support by the traitor Charles Whitten at WSU. That is how WSU graduated more blacks than any other schools in the nation, with massive Fail grades and grades fraud committed by the criminals like Jane Thomas who actually covered-up and obstructed justice and changed the grades from Fail to Pass for black students. Even black physicians admitted that David Fromm, chairman of Surgery, lowered the standards for blacks and the DMC would not dare to comment since it is the truth. Mark Evans, ex-Chairman of Ob-Gyn, made a generous comment about WSU, that WSU reverts back to being simply a trade school, producing clinicians for the local community, that’s all they can do. WSU is an anal-genital school of medicine. In employees of DMC vs, DMC and WSU, patients and employees ran away from WSU’s grads and faculties since they only inflicted anal-genital damages. Anybody else who does not inflicted massive damages is unfit for medicine. Stealing from the bank the way the criminals stole from plaintiff and the American people, the criminals deserve the electric chairs. There are massive Fail grades on the Board exams even though degrees were granted are evidence of fraud, errors in granting degrees. WSU Family medicine Mark Ebell is an intellectual dwarf, using radical grading tactics to compensate for his inferiority and as a result, massive dead bodies are on the floor. 4. The criminals publicly support with tax money the criminals that assaulted innocent American people with HIV-infected blood. The American people ought to boycott the graduates in general and the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Cleveland Clinic Foundation in particular. Should the criminals assaulted innocent people with HIV-infected blood, the American people reserve the right to defend themselves by pumping bullets to the criminal’s heads. On the internet, a DMC doctor searched for sex from an assumed teen-age girl who actually is an undercover police. The doctor was arrested and could face 22 years in jail. That is WSU, America! The lowest it could ever be. Fong, a DO quality who practiced medicine by consulting Surgery to do all the works, is considered fit by the criminals. Callahan, a Caribbean medical school graduate, with the brain of a dog’s testicle, physically assaulted plaintiff, should have bullets to the head. Sokol’s girl, self-proclaimed that she could not get into UM, used nepotism to get into WSU. Like father like daughter. Lewd, ugly, stupid, asking for all kinds of help from plaintiff, even protection from the WSU rapists. Those were considered fit for medicine by the criminals! Gas masks were needed to read the damages inflicted on innocent American people by the criminals. WSU’s grads are like bombs, weapons of mass destruction, bombs that explode continuously and perpetually. 5. In Murphy vs. the DMC and WSU, WSU medical grads, so-called WSU family members by Robert Sokol, experts in medicine supposedly, abruptly dismissed a black physician by having a dead patient in his bloody hands, initially claimed that it was by quackery, by poor medicine by Murphy. Murphy by racketeering, used physicians with fraudulent degrees, claimed that it was proper care. Facing with a boycott and monetary loss, David Campbell, a businessman and Llyod Semple, Chairman of the law firm Dykema Gosett, kneeled down and apologized like Saddam’s thugs who raped innocent women and then kneeled down in front of the US Marines asking for mercy. A businessman obviously knows more about medicine than WSU grads. The DMC initially required monitoring of Murphy which is the right thing but later on cowardly backed down and reinstated Murphy without any monitoring to allow all the cover-ups and obstruction of justice and racketeering by putting black people in committees to graduate more blacks by fraud, deceit, errors in granting degrees. American people have the right to know the facts that when they go to a WSU grads, they might go under the knife of somebody with massive Fail grades, with degrees granted by DO quality in Internal Medicine like J. Appel with a knowledge-based like a nurse from a sewer like Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. Robert Frank, a WSU grad, stated that he could get AIDS by examining patients! That is WSU ugly, bald headed like a dog. Murphy raised tons of issues against the DMC, clearly only as pretexts, since after accepting bribe money earned by honest, decent people, Murphy dropped all the issues even though they are still there and remain unchanged. During the dispute, the black community claimed that “it is our bodies, stupid” to the DMC. America is a multi-race country and there are other races out there. It is time for the American people to say “it is our bodies” and boycott and destroy the criminals. Proper care is the care recognized by internationally experts, and not by rackeetering by putting the black race with covered massive Fail grades in committees as the proper care. Using that standard, most of the WSU and UM’s grads should be fried on the electric chairs with their criminal records. 6. As long as the criminals signed their names on the degrees, they bear full responsibilities to the American people. WSU and UM grads are like bombs that explode continuously and perpetually all across the Nation. The damages far exceeded the Oklahoma City bombing and the death penalties on the criminals are warranted. Everytime the WSU and UM grads reported that “Patient died” then the criminals must be fried on the electric chairs. Every WSU grad who brought shame, disgrace by dumping staff patients to students while taking care of patients with private insurance so they can make more money like Paul Ragatzki, who dodged HIV cases by not scrubbing in invasive procedures, by calling each other by obscene names, should be put under oath and then fried on the electric chairs for their conducts after going through a Nuremberg-type trial for WSU and UM. Homosexual rapist like J.H.Isaacson, using genetic factors to justify for his conduct and the AIDS virus like a sacred symbol, must be castrated then fried on the electric chair. WSU’s grads dumped staff patients from the suburbs to the DMC like 3 divisions of Marine against 6 divisions. Hundreds of thousands of documented and millions of undocumented errors over the years by the criminals earned them the death penalties. 7. J.H.Isaacson, employed and fully defended by Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF), had the conducts of a homosexual rapist who probably has AIDS. Plaintiff signed up a contract with the DMC only for strictly educational purposes and was assigned in Isaacson’s group. The contract lasted only exactly 12 times, but the rapist took advantage and violently wanted a lifetime commitment from plaintiff. Even months after the contract, the rapist still stalked, harassed and asked plaintiff to go out against plaintiff’s will. The rapist hallucinated and signed lies about plaintiff. The rapist stole the works from plaintiff, could not do absolutely anything, wanted forced contacts with plaintiff. The rapist wanted to infect plaintiff with AIDS since he is jealous of plaintiff’s success. That is rape, America. Facing with 4 lawsuits and a massive list of witnesses, the criminals criminally backed down and used every imaginable disputes to have the lawsuits dismissed rather than facing the witnesses and the facts. The criminals gang raped plaintiff in private, yet cowardly hiding when facing the witnesses. The criminals would not dare to challenge the criminal charges and the responsibilities. Instead, the criminals criminally relied on the 11th Amendment which bars monetary damages from being collected from state funds. The criminals used 11th Amendment, yet do not want to obey the 14th Amendment which guaranteed “equal protection under the laws” by the American people. The criminals deserve the death penalty for still fully supported the rapist. America is going to fight back violently and destroy the criminals who practiced the policy of ethnic cleansing. The death penalty would represent the conscience of the Nation, the will of the people. 8. Degrees must be rescinded. Degrees are certifications to the world that the holders satisfied all the requirements. The criminals continue to betray the American people by not rescinded the degrees. Using race to lower the standards for blacks like awarding a gold medal to an athlete or miscounting the votes is simply criminal. Saddam and Adolf also used race in their policies like the criminals and must be destroyed savagely like beasts, terrorists. 9. After the jury awarded millions of dollars in damages to DMC’s employees for sexual harassment and being assaulted with HIV-infected blood, the DMC publicly stated the policy of zero tolerance for any harassment. In reality, the criminals publicly supported the rapist and other criminals. Now there is a public warning to the criminals, the homosexual rapists and drug dealers, the terrorists: Should any of the criminals assaulted innocent people with HIV-infected blood, the criminals will have bullets to the heads. If the American people do not want to be infected with AIDS, then they should boycott the business place of the criminals. 10. The facts can be verified by logging on the Detroit newspapers website at: http://www.detnews.com and www.freep.com about the criminals. 11. The US Supreme Court 's decisions to uphold slavery, segregation, granted widest discretion to school officials (including free to rape, to steal, to lie, to cheat, to obstruct justice) were not voted for by the American people nor passed through legislation by Congress. 12. The terrorists at UM, WSU, Cleveland Clinic, Karmanos Center Institute and DMC aided, abetted, supported the terrorists who used HIV-blood as weapons of terrorism must be fried on the electric chairs. That is public trust. Saddam and bin Laden are America’s public enemies #1. The above-named terrorists must join the list. 13. If Saddam uses biochemical weapons of mass destruction, Saddam will get a nuclear blast on the head. The above-mentioned terrorists already used HIV-blood as weapons of terrorism and must get the same treatment. According to President Bush’s doctrine, there is no difference between the terrorists and those who harbor the terrorists, or who signed the degrees to commit acts of terrorism. Truly yours, Manh Tran, plaintiff 80 E. Hancock #702 Detroit, MI 48201
Manh Tran
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Detroit, MI USA - Tuesday, October 23, 2001 at 14:40:38 (EDT)

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!Hola! !Yo no habla ingles. Tu es muy interesante! Yo tengo 7 anos. Gracias. !Chau!
Rosita Luisa

Mexico City, Mexico - Saturday, October 06, 2001 at 19:52:52 (EDT)

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This seems kinda old, it talks about the bicentenial and it only goes up to the 80s! That's 20 years ago!
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pretty boring site - too wordy!
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Came to this site looking for Katherine Drexel and found stuff on one of my other favorites Bl. Junipero Serra
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The History of Catholic America The Church Keeps Building In the same year that British flames consumed our capital during the War of 1812, three Sisters of Charity of Emmitsburg were engaged in the founding of this country's first Catholic institution for homeless children in Philadelphia, St. Joseph's Orphanage. The first free school for Blacks in the South was begun in Georgetown by Father John McEIroy, S.J., in 1818. Father McElroy later founded Boston College. Each Sunday afternoon Black children would be tutored in reading, writing, arithmetic, and Christian doctrine. A number of previous attempts, in other times and places, had been foiled by ardent racists. However, historian Carter G. Woodson states in The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: "Most interest in the cause in Maryland was manifested near the cities of Georgetown and Baltimore. Long active in the cause of elevating the colored people, the influence of the revolutionary movement was hardly necessary to arouse the Catholics to discharge their duty of enlightening the blacks. Whenever they had the opportunity to give slaves religious instruction, they generally taught the unfortunates everything that would broaden their horizon and help them to understand life. The Abolitionists and Protestants were also in the field, but the work of the early Fathers in Georgetown made it, by the time of its incorporation into the District of Columbia, a center sending out teachers to carry on the instruction of Negroes. So liberal were the white people of this town that colored children were sent to school there with white boys and girls who raised no objection." Right into the early 1820s, Long Island lacked a resident priest. Since only eight priests under Bishop John Connolly served the diocese - an area comprised of the entire state of New York plus part of New Jersey - it is understandable that the faithful of this out-mission seldom had a priestly visit and usually had to row across the river to attend Mass in the old St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mott Street or St. Peter's Church on Barclay Street. On New Year's Day 1822, the Catholics of Brooklyn held their first meeting at the home of Peter Turner to plan a church and initiate a building fund. Much of the funding for the developing Church in America was to come from European missionary societies. The Ludwig Mission Society of Munich and the Leopoldine Foundation of Vienna provided for the German immigrant in particular. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, then based in Lyons and Paris, took a more general interest but occasionally displayed partiality toward dioceses with larger French populations or with French bishops. It is clear that the Church in America could never have come to prosperity without the critical aid of these mission-minded groups. In April of 1825, Father John Farnan came from Utica, New York, where two years earlier he had been suspended from a pastorate, to serve as Brooklyn's first pastor. His reinstatement and subsequent assignment to St. James in Brooklyn came only after the death of Bishop Connolly, who had suspended him. He was an inspiring and hard-working priest with great charisma, but he got embroiled in politics and militant Irish freedom organizations and was even charged with "being drunk at vespers" before Bishop John DuBois again suspended him in 1829. Father Farnan had become a popular hero by this time and within two years he rallied enough support to begin his own church building. The ensuing public battle brought headaches and embarrassment to the hierarchy, but the church was never quite finished by the Farnan faction. It was used only once - to bury the suspended priest's brother - and in the mid-thirties the mortgage holder foreclosed and began leasing the building to private businesses. In a sudden move, Bishop John Hughes bought the structure in 1840 and had it completed as Brooklyn's third Catholic church - The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Catholic sisters earned the gratitude of city officials in Philadelphia and Baltimore when their dedicated labors provided inestimable hours of free nursing care to the victims of cholera epidemics in 1832. Many dedicated nuns were felled at the side of their patients by the dread disease. In 1833, the village of Chicago was incorporated and its first parish - St. Mary's - was founded. At least half of the total population of two or three hundred was Catholic, being mainly of French and Jesuit-converted Indian origin. Only a few years earlier, Chicago had consisted of seven rustic cabins nestled in a wilderness on the border of Lake Michigan. Its inhabitants, trappers and traders, daily intermingled with Indians in the forests. By the time St. Mary's Parish was one year old, Chicago was placed in the jurisdiction of the new Diocese of Vincennes. That year, Bishop Simon Brute visited the city and was amazed at its swift expansion and delighted by its unexpected ecumenism: "Of this place the growth has been surprising, even in the west, a wonder amidst its wonders. From a few scattered houses near the fort it has become, in two or three years, a place of great promise. Its settlers sanguinely hope to see it rank as the Cincinnati of the North. Here the Catholics have a neat little church." "Americans, Irish, French, and Germans meet at a common altar, assembled from the most distant parts of this vast republic or come from the shores of Europe to those of our lakes. Reverend Mr. St. Cyr is their pastor. They already have their choir supported by some of the musicians of the garrison. Many of the officers and a number of the most respectable Protestants attend. The bishop on his arrival in the diocese had been invited by the Protestants as well as the Catholics of this place to fix his residence among them and felt his gratitude revived by the kind reception he now received." At least at this point in time, a beautiful example of brotherhood prevailed in Chicago. < Previous | Next > Post your comment for discussion here: Click here to read comments posted by others (Use the Back button on your browser to return to this page after you are done.) 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The History of Catholic America The Church Keeps Building In the same year that British flames consumed our capital during the War of 1812, three Sisters of Charity of Emmitsburg were engaged in the f, The History of Catholic America The Church Keeps Building In the same year that British flames consumed our capital during the War of 1812, three Sisters of Charity of Emmitsburg were engaged in the f The History of Catholic America The Church Keeps Building In the same year that British flames consumed our capital during the War of 1812, three Sisters of Charity of Emmitsburg were engaged in the f - Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 13:32:25 (EST)

Comment on Of Building and Brotherhood
It's sort of strange to think about it now, but the fear and discontent of Mother Theresa Fairjon just after the Louisiana Purchase must have been truly justified. Think about it: your land has just been bought by a different country, and a brand new one with no track record at that. Thomas Jefferson's letter to her was rather typical; I'm always interested to see prominent historical figures make atypical remarks which put them in a new light. Still, it was a positive thing to see young America already trying to pave the way for religious freedom.
Holden O'Connor

Lincoln, NE USA - Thursday, January 04, 2001 at 10:46:34 (EST)

Comment on In His Service
Like Judith said awhile ago in her comment about the last chapter, it's really inspiring to see the devotion of churchgoers from the past. Today's followers would mostly frown at the prospect of worshiping in a place that wasn't comfortable, or that didn't look so great. I spose it all depends on the environment you're raised in, but it somehow seems as though the earlier generations, through their sacrifices, were more devout.
Glenn Payjack

Flaggstaff, AZ USA - Tuesday, January 02, 2001 at 10:28:43 (EST)

Comment on Fighting the Good Fight
It's so easy to forget hwo difficult it was for the first American settlers, whether affiliated with the church or not, to conquer an area and make it their own. Today, there are so few parts in this country which are 'untamed', and we ever find ourselves 'roughing it' now, it's usually because we make a conscious effort to do so. But the pioneers fighting to establish their families and churches and way of life weren't like the casual weekend enthusiast who goes camping or whatnot; it was tough all day, everyday, and year-round. I am always stricken by just how committed these people were, and how spoiled we seem by comparison.
Judith

Albany, NY - Tuesday, January 02, 2001 at 10:10:27 (EST)

Comment on the Introduction
Hi I was researching for a report on catholic history in the US and I ws having problems coming up with info I found that your site was very helpfull and gave lots of info. Thank you this is a very nice site
jackie
what does this mean(im catholic)
Waterford, MI USA - Tuesday, January 02, 2001 at 02:39:12 (EST)

Comment on Of Poison Pens and Politics
I wonder why we heard in our history classes in school about some of the attitudes toward and negative publicity about the Catholics in early America. The violence talked about here is very unfortunate; it almost sounds like what's going on between the Arabs and Jews in the Middle East now.
Judith

Albany, NY USA - Friday, December 29, 2000 at 10:39:42 (EST)

Comment on The Church Keeps Building
Having lived in Chicago for more than three decades, I chuckled at its depiction as a 'village', even though that's all it was in the early nineteenth century. More interesting was the description of the church in this section, showing Catholics of every background united - if only because they had only one church at the time - in prayer, differences thrown aside for a few hours a week, anyway.
Mike

Chicago, - Thursday, December 28, 2000 at 12:43:13 (EST)

Comment on America's Bicentennial
I was raised Cahtolic, though I'm too young to remember everything reported here about a Catholic celebration at the Bicentennial. I wonder if it was anything like the Jubilee celebration we've had all this year. Of course, I know that 2000 was celebrated by Catholics all around the world, and 1976 was only important to Americans.
Jenny Johnston

Chicago, - Thursday, December 28, 2000 at 12:19:50 (EST)

Comment on The Fight for Freedom
I wonder if Casimir Pulaski was the person for whom the small town of Pulaski, NY, was named. Does anyone have any additional information on this patriot, or on how the town got its name?
Jeff

Utica, NY USA - Thursday, December 28, 2000 at 12:03:28 (EST)

Comment on The English Colonies
i thought this was very interesting and cool and beautiful and fun and stuff and crazy and looney and goodand graet and well gotta go to some place
jessica

montogomery, al usa - Tuesday, October 31, 2000 at 13:15:08 (EST)

Comment on The English Colonies
As an Elementray Education major in History, this chapter really taught me a great deal. We often hear about religious persecution in the American colonies, but often we think of the Salem Witch Trials, the condemnation of Native spirituality, etc. I never knew that the Puritans clashed so violenty with Catholics, even to the point of murder. Were there other notable religious conflicts in early America such as the ones touched upon in this chapter. I was wondering also, aside from Salem, which towns or colonies had the strictest religious laws, and which proved most tolerant?
Sarah R. Derbyshire

Shelby, MT USA - Friday, September 22, 2000 at 14:28:25 (EDT)

Comment on Reform From Within
I always knew that the first European explorers to the New World fought with the Natives, but it seems that they treated the Indians more fairly and humanely than the later British colonists, who regarded the natives as 'savages', etc. I was wondering how the Indians' treatment by the Spanish and Southern Europeans differed from that by the English and other Northern European colonists.
Craig Sikorsky

Pueblo, CO USA - Friday, September 22, 2000 at 14:04:03 (EDT)

Comment on the Introduction
One explorer who's name I did not see metnioned in this chapter is Amerigo Vespucci (sp?), from whom our country and continent got the name America. Was he not also a Catholic Italian, and if so, did he explore at a later time than these others?
David Bowman

Santa Cruz, CA USA - Friday, September 22, 2000 at 13:55:41 (EDT)

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